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Municipal Conservatory Of Barcelona
The Municipal Conservatory of Barcelona (, ) is a teaching institution, which is devoted to music education. The present ownership belongs to the Barcelona City Hall. History The beginnings took place in 1886; it was founded by the Municipal Band of Barcelona as a school of music, so that the new musicians of the band could be trained there. Other cities that had a band had made the same thing, since they had the same necessity. The first director was :ca:Josep Rodoreda, until in 1896 Antoni Nicolau replaced him. In 1911, the position of assistant director was created. The first assistant director was Enric Morera until 1935. In 1930, when a new director was needed for the band, Lluís Millet was elected. He was more conservative and he was preferred by the Barcelona City Hall. His election for this position created some polemics. In the meantime, in 1928 the conservatory building was placed in the corner between Bruc and València streets. Millet left the position in the y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Cateura
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Joan Massià I Prats
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Miquel Farré I Mallofré
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Conxita Badia I Millàs
Conchita is originally a diminutive for the Spanish feminine given name Concepción. Conxita is the Catalan equivalent. ''Conchita'' is also the diminutive of ''concha'' (seashell). Conchita may refer to: People * Conchita Anes (1929/1930–2004), Gibraltarian politician * Conchita Cabrera de Armida (1862–1937), Mexican author and mystic * Conchita Campbell (born 1995), Canadian actress * Conchita Carpio Morales (born 1941), Philippine Ombudsman * Conchita Cintrón (1922–2009), Peruvian bullfighter * Conchita Leeflang, Surinamese singer * Conxita Marsol Riart (born 1960), Andorran lawyer and politician * Conchita Martínez (born 1972), Spanish professional tennis player * Conchita (musician) (born 1981), Spanish singer * Concepcion Picciotto, American protester * Conchita Wurst (born 1988), Austrian singer * Conxita Julià (1920–2019), Catalan nationalist and poet Other * ''Conchita'' (beetle), a genus of hister beetle * ''Conchita'' (opera), an opera by composer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adelaida Ferré Gomis
Adelaida Ferré i Gomis de Ruíz de Narváez (Barcelona, 24 February 1881 - Barcelona, 9 March 1955) was a Spanish historian, teacher, and folklorist associated with lace-making in Catalonia. Early life and education Adelaida Ferré Gomis was the daughter of the painter and decorator Pere Ferré. Her education began at the Escola Normal Superior de Mestres before attending the Municipal Conservatory of Barcelona and the Escola d'Institutrius. There, she had as a teacher the folklorist :es:Rossend Serra i Pagès. Between the years 1902 and 1915, she received artistic training at the Escola de la Llotja. She combined her artistic studies with those at the :ca:Institut Català de les Arts del Llibre and the :es:Centro de Cultura de Mujeres Francesca Bonnemaison, where she was able to perfect her knowledge of lace-making and other crafts. One of Adelaide's teachers at this institute was :es:José Fiter e Inglés, who awakened Ferré's interest in the history of needle lace. Care ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipal Institute Of Education Of Barcelona
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the governing body of a given municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district. The English word is derived from French , which in turn derives from the Latin , based on the word for social contract (), referring originally to the Latin communities that supplied Rome with troops in exchange for their own incorporation into the Roman state (granting Roman citizenship to the inhabitants) while permitting the communities to retain their own local governments (a limited autonomy). A municipality can be any political jurisdiction, from a sovereign state such as the Principality of Monaco, to a small village such as West Hampton Dunes, New York. The territory over which a municip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Superior School Of Music Of Catalonia
The Catalonia College of Music (; ) is a music school in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The school is located at L'Auditori, a performing arts center inaugurated in 1999 which also houses three concert halls and a museum. The school has an international faculty and student body, and includes departments for classical and contemporary music, early music, jazz and popular music, traditional music, musicology and ethnomusicology, theory and composition, music education, music business, and sonology.Joan Melton ''Singing in musical theatre: the training of singers and actors'' 2007 p94 "Another regular teaching trip is in Barcelona at ESMUC, the Escola Superior de Musica de Catalunya. It's not like our conservatoires here, more like a university setup where they offer jazz, Catalán folk music, early music." Faculty * Albert Guinovart, composition * Agusti Charles, composition * Mauricio Sotelo, composition * Uxia Martinez Botana, double bass * Melissa Mercadal, current principal of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Generalitat De Catalunya
The Generalitat de Catalunya (; ; ), or the Government of Catalonia, is the institutional system by which Catalonia is self-governed as an autonomous community of Spain. It is made up of the Parliament of Catalonia, the President of the Government of Catalonia, and the Executive Council of Catalonia (or council of ministers, also very often referred to as ''Govern'', "Government"). Its current powers are set out in the Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia of 2006. The origins of the Generalitat are in the 13th century when permanent councils of deputies (deputations) were created to rule administration of the Courts of the different realms that formed the Crown of Aragon which gave birth to the Deputation of the General of the Principality of Catalonia (1359), the Deputation of the General of the Kingdom of Aragon (1362) and the Deputation of the General of the Kingdom of Valencia (1412). The modern Generalitat was established in 1931, as the institution of self-government of Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carme Vilà
Carme Vilà i Fassier (born 1937) is a Catalan pianist. From 1997 to 2001 she was the director of the Municipal Conservatory of Barcelona. Biography Vilà was born in Roses, Girona, and is the fourth generation of pianists in her family. She started studying piano at the age of four with Emilia Palau. She entered the '' Conservatori Superior del Liceu'' in Barcelona at the age of 12, and graduated with the highest grades and with the Silver and gold medals at the age of 16. She later studied with Béla Síki in Switzerland, at the age of 17, and she was one of the finalists in the Geneva International Piano Competition in 1953 and 1955. In 1959 she entered the Musik Hochschule in Vienna at the Konzertfachklasse of the professor Richard Hauser and won the Haydn-Schubert International Competition in Vienna. In 1961 Vilà obtained the Reifeprühfung from the Musik Akademie in Vienna with the highest qualification. She also studied with Alfred Brendel, Paul Badura-Skoda and Jörg Dem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
