Canciones Clásicas Españolas, Vol.1
Fernando Obradors
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Browse piano sheets by Fernando Obradors on Zen Virtual Piano. Fernando Obradors was a Spanish composer, conductor and pianist, born on 17 October 1896 in Barcelona, where he died on 9 October 1945. He was the grandson of the pianist Joan Obradors and the son of the pianist Julia Obradors. Obradors married the singer Amparo Miguel-Angel. A pianist grandfather, a pianist mother and a singer wife may point to a life closely surrounded by performing musicians. Obradors began his musical studies with his mother and at the Escuela Municipal de Musica de Barcelona with Joan Lamote de Grignon and Antoni Nicolau. He also studied composition, harmony and counterpoint on his own. He completed his training in Paris and began his professional career giving concerts in various European cities. Lessons from his mother and self-directed study of composition may hint at a training that combined family and independent work. Between 1921 and 1941 Obradors wrote four volumes of arrangements of classic Spanish poetry, Canciones clásicas españolas. The Canciones are versions of poems written over several centuries, whose common theme is love in all its forms. Spanish musical essence pervades each song, with references to old Spanish dances, to flamenco and to the guitar, and the piano is treated in a clearly guitar-like way in some pieces. La mi sola, Laureola, inspired by a sixteenth-century villancico, opens the cycle, and its melody reproduces the first syllables of the text, which correspond to the notes La, Mi, Sol and La. A sixteenth-century villancico behind the opening song and a guitar-like piano part elsewhere may suggest that older Spanish music runs through the cycle. After the Spanish civil war, Obradors conducted the Orquesta del Liceo between 1939 and 1941, and the orchestral group of Radio Barcelona. In 1944 he moved to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, where he reorganized the orchestra and the conservatory of the Sociedad Filarmonica de Las Palmas, taught and revived the island's musical life. He returned to Barcelona in 1945. Concerts in various European cities and the reorganizing of an orchestra and conservatory in Las Palmas may point to a career that included both giving concerts and reorganizing musical institutions.
Browse piano sheets by Fernando Obradors on Zen Virtual Piano.
Fernando Obradors was a Spanish composer, conductor and pianist, born on 17 October 1896 in Barcelona, where he died on 9 October 1945. He was the grandson of the pianist Joan Obradors and the son of the pianist Julia Obradors. Obradors married the singer Amparo Miguel-Angel. A pianist grandfather, a pianist mother and a singer wife may point to a life closely surrounded by performing musicians.
Obradors began his musical studies with his mother and at the Escuela Municipal de Musica de Barcelona with Joan Lamote de Grignon and Antoni Nicolau. He also studied composition, harmony and counterpoint on his own. He completed his training in Paris and began his professional career giving concerts in various European cities. Lessons from his mother and self-directed study of composition may hint at a training that combined family and independent work.
Between 1921 and 1941 Obradors wrote four volumes of arrangements of classic Spanish poetry, Canciones clásicas españolas. The Canciones are versions of poems written over several centuries, whose common theme is love in all its forms. Spanish musical essence pervades each song, with references to old Spanish dances, to flamenco and to the guitar, and the piano is treated in a clearly guitar-like way in some pieces. La mi sola, Laureola, inspired by a sixteenth-century villancico, opens the cycle, and its melody reproduces the first syllables of the text, which correspond to the notes La, Mi, Sol and La. A sixteenth-century villancico behind the opening song and a guitar-like piano part elsewhere may suggest that older Spanish music runs through the cycle.
After the Spanish civil war, Obradors conducted the Orquesta del Liceo between 1939 and 1941, and the orchestral group of Radio Barcelona. In 1944 he moved to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, where he reorganized the orchestra and the conservatory of the Sociedad Filarmonica de Las Palmas, taught and revived the island's musical life. He returned to Barcelona in 1945. Concerts in various European cities and the reorganizing of an orchestra and conservatory in Las Palmas may point to a career that included both giving concerts and reorganizing musical institutions.
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Fernando Obradors was born on 17 October 1896 in Barcelona and died in the same city on 9 October 1945.
Obradors began his studies with his mother and at the Escuela Municipal de Musica de Barcelona with Joan Lamote de Grignon and Antoni Nicolau, and he also studied composition, harmony and counterpoint on his own.
Obradors wrote four volumes of arrangements of classic Spanish poetry between 1921 and 1941, versions of poems whose common theme is love in all its forms.
In 1944 Obradors moved to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, where he reorganized the orchestra and conservatory of the Sociedad Filarmonica, taught and revived the island's musical life.