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The XIV International Society for Contemporary Music
Festival took place in Barcelona
in April 1936, just three months before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War
. The 1936 festival is best remembered for the posthumous world premiere of Alban Berg
's Violin Concerto
on its inaugural day.
April 19, 05:30 PM. Palau de la Música Catalana
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April 20, 10:00 PM. Palau de la Música Catalana.
April 21, 06:00 PM. Casal del Metge.
April 22, 10:00 PM. Palau de la Música Catalana.
April 23, 10:00 PM. Palau de la Música Catalana.
International Society for Contemporary Music
The International Society for Contemporary Music is a music organization that promotes contemporary classical music.ISCM was established in 1922, in Salzburg. Its core activity is the World Music Days Festival, held every year at a different location. The festival includes cutting edge productions...
Festival took place in Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
in April 1936, just three months before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War
Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil WarAlso known as The Crusade among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War among Carlists, and The Rebellion or Uprising among Republicans. was a major conflict fought in Spain from 17 July 1936 to 1 April 1939...
. The 1936 festival is best remembered for the posthumous world premiere of Alban Berg
Alban Berg
Alban Maria Johannes Berg was an Austrian composer. He was a member of the Second Viennese School with Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern, and produced compositions that combined Mahlerian Romanticism with a personal adaptation of Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique.-Early life:Berg was born in...
's Violin Concerto
Violin Concerto (Berg)
Alban Berg's Violin Concerto was written in 1935 . It is probably Berg's best-known and most frequently performed instrumental piece.-Conception and composition:...
on its inaugural day.
Program
April 19, 11:15 AM. Palacio de Bellas Artes.-
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Wladimir VogelWladimir VogelWladimir Rudolfowitsch Vogel was a Swiss composer of German and Russian extraction.-Life:...
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Josep Maria Ruera - Three Symphonic Movements - Ricard Lamote de GrignonRicard Lamote de GrignonRicard Lamote de Grignon i Ribas , was a Catalan Spanish composer and orchestral conductor.Ricard Lamote de Grignon was born and died in Barcelona. He was the only son of the composer Joan Lamote de Grignon and Florentina Ribas...
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Florent SchmittFlorent SchmittFlorent Schmitt was a French composer.-Early life:A Lorrainer, born in Meurthe-et-Moselle, Schmitt originally took music lessons in Nancy with the local composer Gustave Sandré. Subsequently he entered the Paris Conservatoire. There he studied with Gabriel Fauré, Jules Massenet, Théodore Dubois,...
- Dyonisiaques
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April 19, 05:30 PM. Palau de la Música Catalana
Palau de la Música Catalana
The Palau de la Música Catalana is a concert hall in Barcelona. Designed in the Catalan modernista style by the architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner, it was built between 1905 and 1908 for the Orfeó Català, a choral society founded in 1891 that was a leading force in the Catalan cultural movement...
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Edmund von Borck - Prelude and Fugue for Orchestra - Robert Gerhard - Ariel
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Ernst KrenekErnst KrenekErnst Krenek was an Austrian of Czech origin and, from 1945, American composer. He explored atonality and other modern styles and wrote a number of books, including Music Here and Now , a study of Johannes Ockeghem , and Horizons Circled: Reflections on my Music...
- Fragments from Karl VKarl VKarl V is an opera, described as a Bühnenwerk mit Musik by Ernst Krenek, his opus 73. The German libretto is by the composer.... - Alban BergAlban BergAlban Maria Johannes Berg was an Austrian composer. He was a member of the Second Viennese School with Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern, and produced compositions that combined Mahlerian Romanticism with a personal adaptation of Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique.-Early life:Berg was born in...
- Violin ConcertoViolin Concerto (Berg)Alban Berg's Violin Concerto was written in 1935 . It is probably Berg's best-known and most frequently performed instrumental piece.-Conception and composition:... - Alban Berg - Fragments from WozzeckWozzeckWozzeck is the first opera by the Austrian composer Alban Berg. It was composed between 1914 and 1922 and first performed in 1925. The opera is based on the drama Woyzeck left incomplete by the German playwright Georg Büchner at his death. Berg attended the first production in Vienna of Büchner's...
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April 20, 10:00 PM. Palau de la Música Catalana.
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- Robert Blum - Three Psalms for Soprano and Chamber Orchestra
- Ludwig Zenk - Piano Sonata
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Mark BrunswickMark BrunswickMark Brunswick was an American composer of the Twentieth Century. He had only recently completed the second act of an opera based on Ibsen’s The Masterbuilder when he died suddenly in London in May, 1971, at the start of what was to have been an extended tour of Europe with his wife, Natascha...
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Václav KaprálVáclav KaprálVáclav Kaprál was a Czech pianist and composer.Kaprál studied composition with Leoš Janáček in the Brno Organ School and with Vítězslav Novák in Prague. Later, he studied piano interpretation with Alfred Cortot in Paris .Kaprál composed about fifty opuses, mainly solo piano, vocal, and chamber...
- Lullabies for Soprano and Chamber Orchestra - Jacques IbertJacques IbertJacques François Antoine Ibert was a French composer. Having studied music from an early age, he studied at the Paris Conservatoire and won its top prize, the Prix de Rome at his first attempt, despite studies interrupted by his service in World War I.Ibert pursued a successful composing career,...
- Concertino da Camera for Saxophone and Eleven Instruments
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April 21, 06:00 PM. Casal del Metge.
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- Walter PistonWalter PistonWalter Hamor Piston Jr., , was an American composer of classical music, music theorist and professor of music at Harvard University whose students included Leroy Anderson, Leonard Bernstein, and Elliott Carter....
- Sonata for Flute and Piano - Egon WelleszEgon WelleszEgon Joseph Wellesz was an Austrian-born British composer, teacher and musicologist, notable particularly in the field of Byzantine music.- Life :...
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Benjamin BrittenBenjamin BrittenEdward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He showed talent from an early age, and first came to public attention with the a cappella choral work A Boy Was Born in 1934. With the premiere of his opera Peter Grimes in 1945, he leapt to...
- Suite for Violin and Piano -
André SourisAndré SourisAndré Souris was a Belgian composer, conductor, musicologist, and writer associated with the surrealist movement.-Biography:...
- Quelques Airs de Clarisse de Jurenville for mezzo-Soprano and String Quartet - Manuel Blancafort - Three Pieces for Piano
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Béla BartókBéla BartókBéla Viktor János Bartók was a Hungarian composer and pianist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century and is regarded, along with Liszt, as Hungary's greatest composer...
- String Quartet No. 5String Quartet No. 5 (Bartók)The String Quartet No. 5 Sz. 102, BB 110 by Béla Bartók was written between August 6 and September 6, 1934.The work is in five movements:#Allegro#Adagio molto#Scherzo: alla bulgarese#Andante#Finale: Allegro vivace...
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April 22, 10:00 PM. Palau de la Música Catalana.
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- Carl RugglesCarl RugglesCharles "Carl" Sprague Ruggles was an American composer of the American Five group. He wrote finely crafted pieces using "dissonant counterpoint", a term coined by Charles Seeger to describe Ruggles' music...
- Sun Treader - Albert RousselAlbert RousselAlbert Charles Paul Marie Roussel was a French composer. He spent seven years as a midshipman, turned to music as an adult, and became one of the most prominent French composers of the interwar period...
- Symphony No. 4 - Frank MartinFrank Martin (composer)Frank Martin was a Swiss composer, who lived a large part of his life in the Netherlands.-Childhood and youth:...
- Piano Concerto - Rodolfo HalffterRodolfo HalffterRodolfo 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...
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Marcel MihaloviciMarcel MihaloviciMarcel Mihalovici was a French composer born in Romania. He was discovered by George Enescu in Bucharest. He moved to Paris in 1919 to study under Vincent d'Indy...
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Roman PalesterRoman PalesterRoman Palester was a Polish composer of classical music. Palester composed his most significant work during the 1960s, and in 1964 was the first Polish musician to be awarded the Alfred Jurzykowski Prize. His work was individual in style, and not noticeably Polish in character.Palester was born in...
- Polish Dances
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April 23, 10:00 PM. Palau de la Música Catalana.
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- Lennox BerkeleyLennox BerkeleySir Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley was an English composer.- Biography :He was born in Oxford, England, and educated at the Dragon School, Gresham's School and Merton College, Oxford...
- Overture for Chamber Orchestra - Karl Alfred Deutsch - Symphony
- Karol SzymanowskiKarol SzymanowskiKarol Maciej Szymanowski was a Polish composer and pianist.-Life:Szymanowski was born into a wealthy land-owning Polish gentry family in Tymoszówka, then in the Russian Empire, now in Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine. He studied music privately with his father before going to Gustav Neuhaus'...
- Violin Concerto No. 2 - Federico ElizaldeFred ElizaldeFederico "Fred" Elizalde was a Philippines-born Spanish classical and jazz pianist, composer, conductor, and bandleader.-Biography:...
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Lars Erik Larsson - Concert Overture No. 2
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Orchestras and Ensembles
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- Barcelona Municipal Band (April 19, 11:15 AM)
- Pablo Casals OrchestraPablo Casals OrchestraThe Orquestra Pau Casals was established by Pau "Pablo" Casals in the early 1920s in Barcelona, with the debut performance taking place October 13, 1920. There had been other orchestras in Barcelona, but none that played with any enduring success...
(April 19, 05:30 PM) - Madrid Philharmonic Orchestra (April 22)
- Madrid Symphony OrchestraMadrid Symphony OrchestraThe Madrid Symphony Orchestra , founded in 1903, is the oldest existing Spanish symphony orchestra not linked to an opera house in Spain.-History:...
(April 23)
Choirs
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- Orfeó Català
- Orfeó Gracienc
- Orfeó de Sans
- Orfeó Montserrat de Gracia
- Schola Cantorum de S.M.A.
Conductors
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- Karel AnčerlKarel AncerlKarel Ančerl , was a Czech conductor, known for his performances of contemporary music and for his interpretations of music by Czech composers...
- Ernest AnsermetErnest AnsermetErnest Alexandre Ansermet was a Swiss conductor.- Biography :Ansermet was born in Vevey, Switzerland. Although he was a contemporary of Wilhelm Furtwängler and Otto Klemperer, Ansermet represents in most ways a very different tradition and approach from those two musicians. Originally he was a...
- Pau Casals
- Enrique Fernández ArbósEnrique Fernandez ArbosEnrique Fernández Arbós was a Spanish violinist, composer and conductor who divided much of his career between Madrid and London. He originally made his name as a virtuoso violinist and later as one of Spain’s greatest conductors.Fernández Arbós was born in Madrid...
- Ricard Lamote de GrignonRicard Lamote de GrignonRicard Lamote de Grignon i Ribas , was a Catalan Spanish composer and orchestral conductor.Ricard Lamote de Grignon was born and died in Barcelona. He was the only son of the composer Joan Lamote de Grignon and Florentina Ribas...
- Bartolomé Pérez Casas
- Pedro Sanjuán
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Hermann ScherchenHermann ScherchenHermann Scherchen was a German conductor.-Life:Scherchen was originally a violist and played among the violas of the Bluthner Orchestra of Berlin while still in his teens... - Lennox Berkeley and Jacques Ibert conducted their works.
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- Anton WebernAnton WebernAnton Webern was an Austrian composer and conductor. He was a member of the Second Viennese School. As a student and significant follower of Arnold Schoenberg, he became one of the best-known exponents of the twelve-tone technique; in addition, his innovations regarding schematic organization of...
was scheduled to conduct Berg's Concerto and Krenek's Karl V, but was replaced respectively by Scherchen and Ansermet, the other two conductors of the concert.
String Quartets
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- Galimir QuartetFelix GalimirFelix Galimir was an Austrian-born American-Jewish violinist and music teacher.He studied with Adolf Bak and Simon Pullman at the Vienna Conservatory from the age of twelve and graduated in 1928. With his three sisters he founded the Galimir Quartet in 1927 to commemorate the 100-year anniversary...
- New Hungarian QuartetHungarian QuartetThe Hungarian String Quartet was a musical ensemble of world renown, particularly famous for its performances of quartets by Beethoven and Bartók...
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Sopranos
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- Concepción Badía de Austí
- Fanny Cleve
- Alice Frey
- Jarmila Vavrdová
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Pianists
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- Benjamin BrittenBenjamin BrittenEdward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He showed talent from an early age, and first came to public attention with the a cappella choral work A Boy Was Born in 1934. With the premiere of his opera Peter Grimes in 1945, he leapt to...
- Walter Frey
- Winifred Hooke
- Leopoldo QuerolLeopoldo QuerolLeopoldo Querol was a Spanish classical pianist.Querol was born in Vinaròs, Castellón in 1899. He was a graduate of the Valencia Conservatory....
- Georg Robert
- Pere Vallribera
- Alejandro Vilalta
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Violinists
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- Antonio BrosaAntonio BrosaAntonio Brosa was a Spanish violinist . He was a great friend of Benjamin Britten, who consulted him on the difficulties of Britten's concerto. He premiered Benjamin Britten's violin concerto op. 15 at Carnegie Hall on 28th March 1940, playing on his Vesuvius Stradivarius of 1727 with the New York...
- Stefan Frankel
- Louis KrasnerLouis KrasnerLouis Krasner was a renowned Ukrainian-born American classical violinist who premiered the violin concertos of Alban Berg and Arnold Schoenberg.-Biography:...
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Wind Instruments
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- Esteban Gratacós, flute
- Sigurd RascherSigurd RaschèrSigurd Manfred Raschèr was an American saxophonist of German birth. He became one of the most important figures in the development of the 20th century repertoire for the classical saxophone.-Career in Europe:...
, saxophone
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