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Enric Morera i Viura (; 22 May 1865 – 11 March 1942) was a Spanish musician and composer.
Enric Morera i Viura: Biography and WorksPersonal papers of Enric Morera in the Biblioteca de Catalunya
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Enric Morera i Viura (; 22 May 1865 – 11 March 1942) was a Spanish musician and composer.
Career
Morera was born inBarcelona
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but moved with his father, a musician, to Buenos Aires
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, Argentina
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in 1867, studying organ, trumpet, and violin there. He returned in 1883 to Barcelona, studying with Isaac Albéniz
Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual (; 29 May 1860 – 18 May 1909) was a Spanish virtuoso pianist, composer, and conductor. He is one of the foremost composers of the Post-Romantic era who also had a significant influence on his conte ...
and Felip Pedrell. Later he lived for two years in Brussels
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before returning to Argentina. He finally returned to Barcelona in 1890 where he was prominent in the movement Catalan Musical Modernism, with for example the opera ''La fada'' (The Fairy) in 1897. He founded the choir "Catalunya Nova". He wrote books on musical theory such as a "Practical Treatise on Harmony".
Among his students were Vicente Asencio, Agusti Grau, Manuel Infante
Manuel Infante (July 29, 1883 – April 21, 1958) was a Spanish composer long resident in France.
A native of Osuna, Infante studied piano and composition with Enrique Morera, and settled in Paris in 1909. While there, he presented numerous ...
, Xavier Montsalvatge and Carlos Surinach.
His music is generally strongly nationalist in character and forms part of the repertory of Catalan national compositions. He wrote more than 800 compositions, including songs, a requiem mass, lyric works, symphonic works, operas, symphonic poems, and sardanes for cobla.
Although he spent some time in Argentina and Belgium, Morera spent most of his life in Barcelona and died there in 1942.
The personal papers of Enric Morera are preserved in the Biblioteca de Catalunya.
Selected compositions
* ''Dansa del gnoms'', 1893 * ''Introducció a l'Atlántida'', symphonic poem, 1893 * ''Minuet per a quartet de corda'', 1889 * ''Jesús de Nazareth'', 1894 * ''La fada'', opera, 1897 * ''L'alegria que passa'', 1898 * ''Missa de rèquiem'', 1899 * ''La nit de l'amor'', 1901 * ''El comte Arnau'', 1905 * ''Bruniselda'', 1906 * ''Empòrium'', opera, 1906 * ''Don Joan de Serrallonga'', 1907 * ''La Santa Espina'', patriotic song and sardana, 1907 * ''Cançons populars catalanes harmonitzades'', 1910 * ''Titaina'', opera, 1912 * ''Tassarba'', opera, 1916 * Concert per a violoncel i orquestra (cello concerto), 1917 * ''El poema de la nit i el dia i de la terra i de l'amor'', symphonic poem, 1920 * ''Cançons de career'', 1926 * ''La marieta de l'ullviu'', 1926 * ''La cançó dels Catalans'', 1930 * ''El castell dels tres dragons'', 1931 * ''Dotze cançons del Llibre de la Pàtria'', 1936See also
* Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu *Escola Municipal de Música * SardanaReferences
Bibliography
* Aviñoa, Xosé: ''Morera'' (Barcelona: Nou Art Thor, 1985) (= ''Gent Nostra'', vol. 37) * Morera, Enric: ''Moments viscuts (auto-biografia)'' (Barcelona: Gráficas Barcelona, 1936), * Pena, Joaquim: ''Enric Morera : assaig biogràfic'' (Barcelona: Institució del Teatre, 1937) (= ''Estudis Institut del Teatre'', vol. 17) * Planes, Ramon: ''El mestre Morera i el seu món'' (Barcelona: Pòrtic, 1972) (= ''Llibre de butxaca'', vol. 55), * Saperas, Miquel: ''El mestre Enric Morera'' (Andorra la Vella & Barcelona: Editorial Andorra, 1969) (= ''Collecció Ahir-Demà'', vol. 4),External links
Enric Morera i Viura: Biography and Works
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