Your Top 10 Spanish Composers

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Florestan

#20
February 09, 2019, 07:06:10 AM
Quote from: San Antone on February 09, 2019, 06:53:30 AM
I give up.   :(

Don't.

After all, they all spoke Spanish* as their mother tongue, so there.  :D

* Castilian, to be more precise politically correct, which I hate being and relish not being.  8)
"Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory." — Thomas Beecham

ritter

#21
February 09, 2019, 07:11:10 AM
Let's see...

Alphabetically:
- Isaac Albéniz
- Manuel Blasco de Nebra (a recent discovery, hat tip to Florestan)
- Manuel de Falla
- Roberto Gerhard
- Enrique Granados
- Cristóbal Halffter
- Ernesto Halffter
- Rodolfo Halffter
- Diego Ortiz
- Antonio Soler

One could argue that  Luigi Boccherini and Domenico Scarlatti qualify as "Spanish" for these purposes, but let's keep it simple... ::)

Quote from: Florestan on February 09, 2019, 07:06:10 AM
Don't.

After all, they all spoke Spanish* as their mother tongue, so there.  :D

* Castilian, to be more precise politically correct, which I hate being and relish not being.  8)
"Castilian" is a cursilada...it's the Real Academia de la Lengua Española after all.

San Antone

#22
February 09, 2019, 07:15:08 AM
Quote from: Florestan on February 09, 2019, 07:06:10 AM
Don't.

After all, they all spoke Spanish* as their mother tongue, so there.  :D

* Castilian, to be more precise politically correct, which I hate being and relish not being.  8)

Much of my exposure to Spanish or Hispanic composers has come from this remarkable series of recordings (I think there are 12 installments):



Segovia & his contemporaries: along with offering a variety of composers and music it highlights many guitarists I might otherwise never have heard.

Florestan

#23
February 09, 2019, 08:18:35 AM
Quote from: ritter on February 09, 2019, 07:11:10 AM
- Manuel Blasco de Nebra (a recent discovery, hat tip to Florestan)

I'm very glad you like his music!  8)

QuoteOne could argue that  Luigi Boccherini and Domenico Scarlatti qualify as "Spanish"

Of course, and with a vengeance! I just limited my choices to Spanish-born fellows.

Quote
"Castilian" is a cursilada...it's the Real Academia de la Lengua Española after all.

Per descomptat! Noski!
"Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory." — Thomas Beecham

ritter

#24
February 09, 2019, 08:25:24 AM
Quote from: Florestan on February 09, 2019, 08:18:35 AM
Per descomptat! Noski!
Pero tamén hai un cuarto idioma, meu amigo... ;D

Florestan

#25
February 09, 2019, 08:35:25 AM
Quote from: ritter on February 09, 2019, 08:25:24 AM
Pero tamén hai un cuarto idioma, meu amigo... ;D

A miña culpa, non puiden atopalo a primeira vista.

Tes correo.  :)



"Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory." — Thomas Beecham

vandermolen

#27
February 09, 2019, 09:50:35 AM
de Falla

err...that's it

Don't know many Spanish composers.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

SymphonicAddict

#28
February 09, 2019, 11:32:11 AM
I couldn't make a 10-name list, I know nothing about some very famous such as Mompou, all the Hallfters, Gerhard, etc.

Anyway, this is my list:

Albéniz
Bretón (3 symphonies, and very especially the No. 3)
Falla
Granados
Guridi (Pyrenean Symphony)
Rodrigo
Turina

Christo

#29
February 09, 2019, 01:14:20 PM
Jesús Arámbarri
Manuel de Falla
Roberto Gerhard
Enrique Granados
Jesús Guridi
Halffter, Rodolfo/Ernesto/Cristóbal (have too often been confused about who's who)
Federico Mompou
Federico Moreno Torroba
Joaquín Rodrigo
Joaquín Turina
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

GioCar

#30
February 10, 2019, 12:10:09 AM
Quote from: ritter on February 09, 2019, 07:11:10 AM
One could argue that  Luigi Boccherini and Domenico Scarlatti qualify as "Spanish" for these purposes, but let's keep it simple... ::)


As much as for instance Willaert and Henze qualify as Italian...

In few years Italy will go bankrupt and be buyed for a cent by our friends from Germany, or Romania, or Spain, or more likely China... (if those will still be our friends, I didn't mention France on purpose). Until then, please don't steal our national glories. You can do it afterwards quite easily, they both have a name which doesn't sound Chinese at all...

ritter

#31
February 10, 2019, 01:33:42 AM
Quote from: GioCar on February 10, 2019, 12:10:09 AM
As much as for instance Willaert and Henze qualify as Italian...

In few years Italy will go bankrupt and be buyed for a cent by our friends from Germany, or Romania, or Spain, or more likely China... (if those will still be our friends, I didn't mention France on purpose). Until then, please don't steal our national glories. You can do it afterwards quite easily, they both have a name which doesn't sound Chinese at all...
...and we haven't even talked about Tiepolo and Luca Giordano (aka Lucas Jordán) yet.. :D

Christo

#32
February 10, 2019, 02:31:11 AM
Quote from: André on February 09, 2019, 05:50:54 AMI'll only list five. Four of them are Catalans.
In my list, two are Basque and two Catalonian. Both 'nations' are a category of their own on my cd shelves - not for political, but for cultural reasons. I also made categories of their own for e.g. Scottish, Welsh, Faroese, Tatar, Frisian and Flemish composers.
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

Rinaldo

#33
February 10, 2019, 07:24:18 AM
This thread made me realize that I know precisely cero Spanish composers. I've surely heard some Spanish renaissance/baroque stuff but dios mío, I'm shocked by the enormity of this particular blind spot of mine.
"The truly novel things will be invented by the young ones, not by me. But this doesn't worry me at all."
~ Grażyna Bacewicz

Mirror Image

#34
February 10, 2019, 07:25:51 AM
Quote from: Christo on February 10, 2019, 02:31:11 AM
In my list, two are Basque and two Catalonian. Both 'nations' are a category of their own on my cd shelves - not for political, but for cultural reasons. I also made categories of their own for e.g. Scottish, Welsh, Faroese, Tatar, Frisian and Flemish composers.

How about Breton composers?

Christo

#35
February 10, 2019, 11:47:44 AM
Quote from: Mirror Image on February 10, 2019, 07:25:51 AM
How about Breton composers?
The French empire and the French emperor (confusingly called 'president') are very centralist and allow for very little regional identity, as you'll know. Owning only two cd's by Breton composers Paul le Flem and Joseph-Guy Ropartz, I didn't place them in a seperate Breton section. I liberated Puerto Rico from its colonial yoke, though.  ;D
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

vandermolen

#36
February 11, 2019, 01:02:05 PM
Nice performance (Angela Hewitt) of Falla's 'Nights in the Gardens of Spain' on BBC Radio 3 this evening - a work I never tire of hearing.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Christo

#37
February 12, 2019, 12:28:04 PM
Quote from: vandermolen on February 11, 2019, 01:02:05 PM
Nice performance (Angela Hewitt) of Falla's 'Nights in the Gardens of Spain' on BBC Radio 3 this evening - a work I never tire of hearing.
Had never realized how much virtuosity the piano part requires untill I saw it performed - not far off - by Alexandre Tharaud in Amsterdam, last year.  :o
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

Florestan

#38
February 12, 2019, 11:51:52 PM
Quote from: Christo on February 10, 2019, 11:47:44 AM
The French empire and the French emperor (confusingly called 'president') are very centralist and allow for very little regional identity, as you'll know. Owning only two cd's by Breton composers Paul le Flem and Joseph-Guy Ropartz, I didn't place them in a seperate Breton section. I liberated Puerto Rico from its colonial yoke, though.  ;D

The French Empire doesn't stretch so far, and the emperor's power is not that great, as to prevent you from buying more Ropartz. The powers that be are certainly blamable, but not for everything.  ;D
"Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory." — Thomas Beecham

Symphonic Addict

#39
August 10, 2023, 04:30:28 PM Last Edit: August 10, 2023, 06:22:33 PM by Symphonic Addict
An update:

More familiar with these six:

Falla
Turina
Gerhard
Rodrigo
E. Halffter
Arriaga


Less familiar with these four:

Albéniz
Granados
Mompou
Guridi

Silly me, I had forgot Turina!
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