Generación del 51 is a designation for one of a series of "generations" of Spanish composers, identifying a group born between 1924 and 1938. Members of this group of composers from the Basque and Castilian-speaking regions of Spain include: * Carmelo Alonso Bernaola (1929–2002) * (1925–2002) *

Ángel Arteaga Ángel Arteaga de la Guía (Campo de Criptana, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha, 28 January 1928 – Madrid, 17 January 1984) was a Spanish musician and composer. Biography Arteaga was born in Campo de Criptana, (Ciudad Real), and his musical ...

(1928–1984) *

Cristóbal Halffter Cristóbal Halffter Jiménez-Encina (24 March 1930 – 23 May 2021) was a Spanish classical composer. He was the nephew of two other composers, Rodolfo and Ernesto Halffter, and is regarded as the most important Spanish composer of the gen ...

(1930–2021) * (1928–2008) * Agustín Bertomeu (born 1929) * (1935–2005) * (1925–1985) * (1930–2005) *

Juan José Falcón Sanabria Juan José Falcón Sanabria (Las Palmas 1936) is a Spanish conductor and composer.Belén Pérez Castillo, Julio C. Arce Bueno ''Juan José Falcón Sanabria'' 1997 pp70 Falcón Sanabria conducts the Coral Polifónica de Las Palmas and Orquesta Fi ...

(born 1936) *

Antón García Abril Antón García Abril OAXS (19 May 1933 – 17 March 2021) was a Spanish composer and musician. He composed many classical orchestral works, chamber and vocal pieces, as well as over 150 scores for film and television. Biography Between 1974 ...

(1933–2021) * (born 1929) * Juan Hidalgo (1927–2018) * (1937–2005) *

Luis de Pablo Luis de Pablo Costales (28 January 1930 – 10 October 2021) was a Spanish composer belonging to the generation that Cristóbal Halffter named ''the Generación del 51''. Mostly self-taught as a composer and influenced by Maurice Ohana and Max ...

(1930–2021) *

Claudio Prieto Claudio Prieto (24 November 1934 – 5 April 2015) was a Spanish composer. He was born in Muñeca de la Peña, Palencia, and began his musical career as a boy in the mid-20th century playing various musical instruments for the municipal band of G ...

(1934–2015) In their earlier works, members of this generation tended toward the avant-garde, with post-Webernian

serialism In music, serialism is a method of composition using series of pitches, rhythms, dynamics, timbres or other musical elements. Serialism began primarily with Arnold Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique, though some of his contemporaries were also ...

evident in the work of Halffter and Luis de Pablo in particular. By the end of the 1970s a mellowing of their language becomes apparent, and during the 1980s many of them began to turn to

tonality Tonality is the arrangement of pitch (music), pitches and / or chord (music), chords of a musical work in a hierarchy of perceived ''relations'', ''stabilities'', ''attractions'', and ''directionality''. In this hierarchy, the single pitch or ...

of one sort or another. The Catalan members of this generation are associated with the reforming and renewing tendencies that emerged after the post-Civil War isolation: * (1931–2017) *

Joan Guinjoan Joan Guinjoan i Gispert (28 November 1931 – 1 January 2019) was a Catalan composer and pianist. Life Born in Riudoms, Guinjoan studied at the Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu in Barcelona. In 1954, he moved to Paris and continued ...

(1931–2019) *

Josep Mestres Quadreny Josep Maria Mestres Quadreny (4 March 1929 – 18 January 2021) was a Spanish composer. Biography He studied sciences at the University of Barcelona, taking lessons in composition from Cristòfor Taltabull. In 1968 he started the Catalan Group ...

(1929–2021) *

Josep Soler i Sardà Josep Soler i Sardà (25 March 1935 – 9 October 2022) was a Catalonian/Spanish composer, writer, music theorist, and one of the main Catalan members of the Generación del 51. Life and career Soler was born in Vilafranca del Penedès, Second ...

(1935-2022) Soler's compositional palette involves serial techniques, and he is particularly noted for his dramatic music.

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