Miquel Capllonch Rotger (14 January 1861 in
Pollença
Pollença () is a town and municipality in the northern part of the island of Mallorca, near Cap de Formentor and Alcúdia. It lies inland, about west of its port, Port de Pollença.
History
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- 21 December 1935) was a Majorcan pianist and composer.
He studied music in Pollença with his cousin, Joan Rotger, organist of the parish of Pollença.
He continued his musical studies with William Massot and at the Conservatory of Music in Madrid, with teachers like Tragó, Galiana, Chapí and Hernando.
He then worked in Madrid with the Polish composer Weber. He obtained a grant from the Island's Council to complete studies in Germany, where he was a student at the Conservatory of Music in Berlin. Among his teachers there was
Anton Rubinstein
Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein (; ) was a Russian pianist, composer and conductor who founded the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. He was the elder brother of Nikolai Rubinstein, who founded the Moscow Conservatory.
As a pianist, Rubinstein ran ...
who would become a good friend. He taught music for the royal families of Prussia (the Hohenzollerns ) and Saxony, and gave concerts for European royalty.
In 1906 he married Gabriela Miteau with whom he had four children. In 1912 he moved with his family to Madrid, and three years later to Barcelona.
He died in Pollença on 21 December 1935 and is commemorated by a
bronze
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bust (at in the main square of
Port de Pollença
Port de Pollença (Balearic ; ) is a small town in northern Majorca, Spain, on the Bay of Pollença about 6 km east of Pollença and two kilometres southeast of Cala Sant Vicenç, Majorca, Cala Sant Vicenç. Cap de Formentor is connected to ...
, , which is named after him.
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References
* http://www.culturapollensa.com/es/tema/miquel-capllonch/
* http://www.march.es/Musica/contemporanea/archivo/fichaCompositor.asp?Id_Compositor=12
External links
* http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Choir/1838/pagconciyasrealizados3.htm
* http://www.fundacionrotgervillalonga.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=23&Itemid=45
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1861 births
1935 deaths
People from Mallorca
Spanish composers
Spanish male composers
Spanish pianists
Musicians from the Balearic Islands