''Ayssuragan'' is a symphonic poem for clarinet in B-flat and orchestra written by the

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composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and def ...

and

pianist A pianist ( , ) is a musician who plays the piano. A pianist's repertoire may include music from a diverse variety of styles, such as traditional classical music, jazz piano, jazz, blues piano, blues, and popular music, including rock music, ...

Gustavo Díaz-Jerez Gustavo Díaz-Jerez (born 27 February 1970) is a Spanish pianist and composer. Biography Gustavo Díaz-Jerez was born on 27 February 1970 in Tenerife. Díaz-Jerez studied piano with J. A. Rodriguez at the Conservatorio Superior of Santa Cr ...

. ''Ayssuragan'', meaning “the place of freezing” in the extinct language of the

Guanches The Guanche were the Indigenous peoples, indigenous inhabitants of the Spain, Spanish Canary Islands, located in the Atlantic Ocean some to the west of modern Morocco and the North African coast. The islanders spoke the Guanche language, which i ...

, aborigines of the

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, refers to the place where, in the final moments of the European conquest of the island of

La Palma La Palma (, ), also known as ''La isla bonita'' () and historically San Miguel de La Palma, is the most northwesterly island of the Canary Islands, a Spanish autonomous community and archipelago in Macaronesia in the North Atlantic Ocean. La Pa ...

, the non-combatant population took refuge and died. Together with ''

Ymarxa ''Ymarxa'' is an orchestral piece of classical music by the Spanish composer and pianist Gustavo Díaz-Jerez. ''Ymarxa'' is a guanche word meaning 'new', 'brilliant', 'splendid'. It also referred to a place in Tenerife in what today is La Esperanza ...

'', ''

Aranfaybo ''Aranfaybo'' is a work of classical music scored for chamber orchestra written by the Spanish composer and pianist Gustavo Díaz-Jerez. ''Aranfaybo'' was one of the gods in the mythology of the Bimbaches, aborigines of the island of El Hierro in t ...

'', '' Chigaday'', '' Azaenegue'', '' Erbane'' and '' Guanapay'', ''Ayssuragan'' is part of a cycle of seven orchestral works inspired in different places of each of the Canary Islands. ''Ayssuragan'' is a one-movement work lasting about 25 minutes, merging elements from

spectralism Spectral music uses the acoustic properties of sound – or sound spectra – as a basis for composition. Definition Defined in technical language, spectral music is an acoustic musical practice where compositional decisions are often inform ...

and algorithmic procedures. It was premiered on 14 December 2012 by the Symphonic Orchestra of Tenerife under the baton of Antoine Marguier with Cristo Barrios as a soloist at the Auditorium ''Adán Martín'' of

Tenerife Tenerife ( ; ; formerly spelled ''Teneriffe'') is the largest and most populous island of the Canary Islands, an Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Spain. With a land area of and a population of 965,575 inhabitants as of A ...

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*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n58vDN9fJtM {{Authority control Compositions by Gustavo Díaz-Jerez Contemporary classical compositions La Palma