Julián Bautista was a Spanish composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

 and conductor

Conducting

Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. The primary duties of the conductor are to unify performers, set the tempo, execute clear preparations and beats, and to listen critically and shape the sound of the ensemble...

. He was a member of Generation of '27

Generation of '27

The Generation of '27 was an influential group of poets that arose in Spanish literary circles between 1923 and 1927, essentially out of a shared desire to experience and work with avant-garde forms of art and poetry. Their first formal meeting took place in Seville in 1927 to mark the 300th...

 and the Group of Eight

Group of Eight (music)

The Group of Eight was a group of Spanish composers and musicologists, including Jesús Bal y Gay, Ernesto Halffter and his brother Rodolfo, Juan José Mantecón, Julián Bautista, Fernando Remacha, Rosa García Ascot, Salvador Bacarisse and Gustavo Pittaluga. The group was founded in the spirit of Les...

, the latter of which also included composers Jesús Bal y Gay

Jesús Bal y Gay

Jesús Bal y Gay was a Spanish composer, music critic, and musicologist. He was a member of Generation of '27 and the Group of Eight, the latter of which also included composers Julián Bautista, Ernesto Halffter and his brother Rodolfo, Juan José Mantecón, Fernando Remacha, Rosa García Ascot,...

, Ernesto Halffter

Ernesto Halffter

Ernesto Halffter Escriche was a Spanish composer and conductor. He was the brother of Rodolfo Halffter....

 and his brother Rodolfo

Rodolfo Halffter

Rodolfo Halffter Escriche was a Spanish composer.-Life:Born in Madrid, Spain into a family of musicians, he was the brother of Ernesto Halffter and uncle of Cristóbal Halffter, also composers. His father Ernesto Halffter Hein came from Königsberg, Germany...

, Juan José Mantecón

Juan José Mantecón

Juan José Mantecón was a Spanish composer. He was a member of Generation of '27 and the Group of Eight, the latter of which also included composers Jesús Bal y Gay, Ernesto Halffter and his brother Rodolfo, Julián Bautista, Fernando Remacha, Rosa García Ascot, Salvador Bacarisse and Gustavo...

, Fernando Remacha

Fernando Remacha

Fernado Remacha Villar was a composer, part of the Group of Eight which formed a sub-set of the Generation of '27.-Early years:...

, Rosa García Ascot

Rosa García Ascot

Rosa García Ascot was a Spanish composer and pianist. She was the only woman in the famed Group of Eight, whose members also included Julián Bautista, Ernesto Halffter and his brother Rodolfo, Juan José Mantecón, Fernando Remacha, Salvador Bacarisse and Jesús Bal y Gay. She married Bal y Gay in 1933...

, Salvador Bacarisse

Salvador Bacarisse

Salvador Bacarisse Chinoria was a Spanish composer.Bacarisse was born in Madrid and studied music at the Real Conservatorio de Música there, as a student of Manuel Fernández Alberdi and Conrado del Campo...

 and Gustavo Pittaluga

Gustavo Pittaluga

Gustavo Pittaluga was an Italian doctor and biologist.Nationalized Spanish in 1904 Pittaluga made contributions to the development of haematology and the parasitology, as well as by his contributions to national and international fight against malaria and other protozoans causing disease s...

. He composed the soundtracks to 37 movies in addition to more than 30 other classical works. He worked actively as a conductor with such orchestras as the Madrid Symphony Orchestra

Madrid Symphony Orchestra

The Madrid Symphony Orchestra , founded in 1903, is the oldest existing Spanish symphony orchestra not linked to an opera house in Spain.-History:...

 and the Spanish National Orchestra.

Bautista was the son of Julián Bautista Swartz and Ventura Cachaza Vázquez. He began studying solfège

Solfege

In music, solfège is a pedagogical solmization technique for the teaching of sight-singing in which each note of the score is sung to a special syllable, called a solfège syllable...

 at the age of 7 and piano at the age of 11 with Pilar Fernández de la Mora. At the age of 14 he began taking courses in harmony

Harmony

In music, harmony is the use of simultaneous pitches , or chords. The study of harmony involves chords and their construction and chord progressions and the principles of connection that govern them. Harmony is often said to refer to the "vertical" aspect of music, as distinguished from melodic...

, counterpoint

Counterpoint

In music, counterpoint is the relationship between two or more voices that are independent in contour and rhythm and are harmonically interdependent . It has been most commonly identified in classical music, developing strongly during the Renaissance and in much of the common practice period,...

, and fugue

Fugue

In music, a fugue is a compositional technique in two or more voices, built on a subject that is introduced at the beginning in imitation and recurs frequently in the course of the composition....

 at the Madrid Royal Conservatory where he was a pupil of Conrado del Campo

Conrado del Campo

Conrado del Campo was a composer, violinist and professor at the Real Conservatorio de Música in Madrid, who was the principal conductor of the Madrid Symphony Orchestra.His was works played in the Theathre Real of Madrid for José María Alvira. His opera Lola la Piconera made its debut at the Gran...

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Works

Sonata para Piano y Violin, 1918–20 Cuarteto para cuerdas, 1918–20 Canciones sobre Poesias de Bécquer, 1918–20 Dos Impresiones Sinfónicas, 1918–20 Interior, lyrisches Drama nach Maurice Maeterlinck Maurice Maeterlinck Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck, also called Comte Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911. The main themes in his work are death and the meaning of life... , 1920 La Flute de Jade, 1921 Dos Canciones, 1921 Juerga y Suite de Danzas, 1921 Colores, 1921–22 Premier Cuarteto de Cuerdas, 1922–23 Sonatina-Trio, 1924 Segundo Cuarteto de Cuerdas, 1926 Tres Preludios Japoneses, 1927 Perludio y Danza, 1928 Suite all'Antica, 1932

Obertura para una Opera Grotesca, 1932 Estrambote, 1933 Primera Sonata concertata a Quattro, 1933–34 Sonata a Tres, 1934–36 Concierto para Piano y Orquestra, 1934–36 Don Perlimplin, 1934–36 Tres Ciudades, 1937 Camino de la Felicidad, 1937–38 Seconda Sonata concertata a Quattro, 1938–39 Fantasia Espanola, 1945 Catro Poemas Galegos, 1946 Sinfonía breve, 1956 Romance del Rey Don Rodrigo, 1956 Segunda Sinfonía "Ricordiana", 1957 Tercer Cuarteto de Cuerdas, 1958

External links

• Julián Bautista: website dedicated to his life and work