Josep Soler i Sardà
Illustration — Josep Soler i Sardà Josep Soler i Sardà (25 March 1935 – 9 October 2022) was a Catalonian/Spanish composer, writer, music theorist, and one of the main Catalan members of the Generación del 51.
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Josep Soler i Sardà
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- Born
- 1935 · Vilafranca del Penedès.
- Died
- 2022 · Barcelona.
- Nationality
- Spain
- Occupation
- composer · musicologist · music theorist · music journalist
- Fields
- opera · contemporary classical music
- Honours
- Prize Tomás Luis de Victoria · National Music Prize for Composition · National Music Prize · City of Barcelona Award · Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts
- Languages
- Catalan · Spanish
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Illustration — Josep Soler i Sardà Josep Soler i Sardà (25 March 1935 – 9 October 2022) was a Catalonian/Spanish composer, writer, music theorist, and one of the main Catalan members of the Generación del 51.
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The recorded working language is Catalan and Spanish. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are opera and contemporary classical music. Distinctions recorded are Prize Tomás Luis de Victoria, National Music Prize for Composition, National Music Prize and City of Barcelona Award.
Soler was born in Vilafranca del Penedès, Spain, on 25 March 1935. He studied composition and orchestration with Cristòfor Taltabull, and was also a pupil of René Leibowitz in Paris. Soler's works include 16 operas, 7 symphonies, 3 piano concertos, 7 String Quartets, 16 Sonatas for piano and an orchestration of Isaac Albéniz's Pepita Jiménez, inter alia. Since 1982, he taught at the Reial Acadèmia Catalana de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi (Royal Catalan Academy of Fine Arts of Saint George) in Barcelona. His students included Benet Casablancas and Alejandro Civilotti. In 2013, Soler was awarded the Gold Medal of Merit in Fine Arts awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Culture. He refused this honour, stating: "Aceptar el reconocimiento sería aceptar la autoridad del Gobierno español, y yo no quiero saber nada del ministro Wert ni del gobierno de Rajoy, porque a ellos no les interesa en absoluto ni la cultura ni la educación." ("To acknowledge this recognition is to acknowledge the authority of the Spanish government, and I do not want anything to do with minister [José Ignacio] Wert and the government of [Prime Minister Mariano] Rajoy, because they are not interested at all in either culture or education.") The personal papers of Josep Soler i Sardà are preserved in the Biblioteca de Catalunya. Soler died on 9 October 2022, at the age of 87.
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Essays
• (1980) Fuga, técnica e historia • (1982) La música • (1983) Victoria • (1994) Escritos sobre música y dos poemas • (1999) Otros escritos y poemas • (1999) Tiempo y Música (with Joan Cuscó) • (2003) Nuevos escritos y poemas • (2004) J.S. Bach. Una estructura del dolor • (2006) Música y Ética • (2011) Musica Enchiriadis • (2014) "Últimos escritos"
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Josep Soler i Sardà is recorded as having received Prize Tomás Luis de Victoria, National Music Prize for Composition and National Music Prize.
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1935
Josep Soler i Sardà born at Vilafranca del Penedès.
2022
Josep Soler i Sardà died at Barcelona.
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Vilafranca del Penedès.
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Barcelona.
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• Prize "Opera de Montecarlo" (1964); • Prize Ciudad de Barcelona (1962 and 1978); • "Óscar Esplà" in Music Composition Award (1982); • Premi Nacional de Música de Catalunya (2001); • Premio Nacional de Música (2009); • XI Iberoamerican Prize Premio Tomás Luis de Victoria. (2011) • Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts. (2013), refused.
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- 1.Josep Soler rechaza la Medalla de Oro de las Bellas Artes. La Nueva España. 2013-11-27.
- 2.CCMA. Mor el compositor i assagista Josep Soler. 9 October 2022.
- 3.XII Premio SGAE Tomás Luis de Victoria | SGAE.
- 4.La actriz Amparo Baró y el compositor Josep Soler, Medallas de Oro al Mérito en las Bellas Artes. 28 December 2012.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 7
- LEIBOWITZ, René. "Josep Soler" in CASARES, Emilio (ed.) "14 compositores españoles de hoy", Universidad de Oviedo, 1982, pp. 466–474.
- LEWINSKI, W.E. von. "Vier katalanische Komponisten in Barcelona", Melos, nº3, 1971, pp. 93–103.
- MEDINA, Ángel. Josep Soler. Música de la Pasión ICCMU. Madrid, 1998.
- SADIE, Stanley. "Josep Soler" in "The New Grove Dictionary of Opera". MacMillan. London, 1992.
- Bruach Menchen, Agustí. Les òperes de Josep Soler. Autonomous University of Barcelona, 1997.
- cite thesis
- Roura, Teodor.La música vocal de Josep Soler. Escrits teòrics i obra musical. Autonomous University of Barcelona, 2017.
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The authorities additionally record the heading Josep Soler i Sarda. His recorded languages were Catalan and Spanish. Sardà received Prize Tomás Luis de Victoria, National Music Prize for Composition, National Music Prize, City of Barcelona Award and Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts.
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