Salvador Bacarisse Chinoria (12 September 18985 August 1963) was a Spanish
composer
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Bacarisse was born in
Madrid
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and studied music at the
Real Conservatorio de Música there, as a student of Manuel Fernández Alberdi (piano) and
Conrado del Campo
Conrado del Campo y Zabaleta (28 October 1878 – 17 March 1953) was a Spanish composer, violinist and pedagogue.
Career
Del Campo was born in Madrid and became professor at the Real Conservatorio de Música in Madrid in 1915, where he was an ...
(composition). He was a leading member of the
Grupo de los Ocho (founded in the spirit of
Les Six
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to combat musical conservatism) and helped to promote new music as the artistic director of Unión Radio until 1936. At the end of the
Spanish Civil War
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in 1939, Bacarisse exiled himself to
Paris
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after rejecting the
Francoist State
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of
Francisco Franco
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. From 1945 until his death, he worked for Radio-Télévision Française as a broadcaster of Spanish-language programmes.
Bacarisse composed for the piano, mixed chamber ensembles, operas including ''El tesoro de Boabdil'' which won a French radio award in 1958, and orchestral works including four piano concertos and a violin concerto. His most famous work today is the Concertino for Guitar and Orchestra in A minor, Op. 72, composed in 1952 in a
neo-romantic style. It is known in a celebrated recording by
Narciso Yepes
Narciso Yepes (14 November 19273 May 1997) was a Spanish guitarist. He is considered one of the finest virtuoso classical guitarists of the twentieth century.
Biography
Yepes was born into a family of humble origin in Lorca, Region of Murcia. ...
.
References
* Christiane Heine. "Salvador Bacarisse", ''
Grove Music Online
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'', ed. L. Macy (accessed January 3, 2005)
grovemusic.com(subscription access).
*Enrique Franco. "Salvador Bacarisse", ''
Grove Music Online
''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' is an encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians. Along with the German-language ''Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart'', it is one of the largest reference works on the history and theo ...
'', ed. L. Macy (accessed January 3, 2005)
grovemusic.com(subscription access). (Opera)
1898 births
1963 deaths
Musicians from Madrid
Spanish composers
Spanish male composers
Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery
Madrid Royal Conservatory alumni
20th-century composers
20th-century Spanish musicians
20th-century Spanish male musicians
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