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Manuel Blancafort (1897-1987)
Blancafort
was member of a group of Catalan composers that started publishing
their first works just before the twenties trying to break with
wagnerism. As he wrote in 1929, "To get rid of Wagner is, in my
opinion, the first commandment of the new Catalan music...A few of us
in Catalonia would rather lean towards Paris than to Berlin". The group
was formally organized in 1931 as the "Associació de Compositors
Independents de Catalunya (CIC)" and counted Toldrà, Lamote de
Grignon, Mompou, Samper and Gerhard as members.
Through music he could record his impressions, like pages in a diary
without words. His discovery
of French and Russian music and the premire of Albéniz's Iberia were
vital to his development as a composer, opening up the musical
direction he was to take. Blancafort believed that Catalan music should
be
characterised by clarity: simple, without excessive counterpoint or
nebulous chromaticism which would drown out our lyrical traditions
purity of expression.
- Orchestra & Soloist
Sardana Simfònica (Pic.2.2.2.2/4.2.3.1/Tmp.2Perc/Str./ and Tenora obligato) (c. 6')
(Tenora is a popular catalan wind instrument)
(pdf
score)