Ataúlfo Silver plated

Ataúlfo Silver plated (Castro Urdiales, Cantabrie, November 19th 1913 - Los Molinos, Madrid, January 21st 1958), Pianiste and Spanish Leader .

Biography

Its complete name was Ataúlfo Exuperio Martín de Argenta Refined. He was the only son of Don Juan Martín Argenta and Doña Laura Maza.

In 1927, it went to Madrid to study the Musique with the Royal Academy of Madrid, as a pupil of Fernández Alberdi. There, it was pointed out quickly as pianist. Later, it went in Belgium to study with the Master Armand Marsick.

He was piano teacher, with the Academy of Cassel and studies the direction of orchestra with Carl Schuricht. After being itself produced as pianist with great successes in Spain and abroad, it was devoted exclusively to the direction of orchestra.

It is turned over to Spain at the end of the Civil war. During the Second world war, he played of the piano and the celesta to the National orchestra from Spain in Madrid. In 1947 it was appointed chief of this orchestra, initially at the station of second chief, and then as titular chief, to replace Pérez Casas. In 1949 it founded the Chamber orchestra of Madrid. Moreover he was invited chief of the National orchestra of France. It was a specialist in the German romantic music and Spanish music, with a predilection for the type-setter Manuel of Falla. It obtained the Cruz of Isabel Católica and the Gran Cruz de Alfonso X el Sabio , this last distinction on a purely posthumous basis. It moreover was named member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in 1956.

Among his most remarkable interpretations, one finds the Spanish Rapsodie of Maurice Ravel and the Spanish Danses of Moritz Moszkowski.

Few days before its death, Ataúlfo Argenta had obtained one of its greater successes of its artistic life, while directing to the Palacio of Música primero , and then in the Monumental Cinema of Madrid, the oratorio of Haendel " the Messiah ".

Silver plated died in Madrid in 1958 accidentally of one intoxication with the carbon monoxide.

January 31st, ten days after its death, the orchestra is present for the first time at its public without its chief. The musicians, upright, interprêté the choral of Laying the BWV 140, of J.S. Bach, listened by the public also upright.

A statue of Ataúlfo Argenta by the sculptor Rafael Huerta was set up in the garden of Castro Urdiales in 1961.

Recordings

Recorded approximately 50 Zarzuela S silver plated, in which known singers of opera held the principal roles. Many recordings of this series were republished by Decca. It had signed a contract with Decca to make a series of recordings, the majority devoted to the Spanish, Russian or French music.

Silver plated also recorded the opera Goyescas of Enrique Granados, the fantastic Symphonie of Hector Berlioz with the Orchestre of the Company in the concerts of the Academy of Paris, Images of Claude Debussy and the Symphonie No 4 in minor F of Tchaikovsky, with the Orchestre of the French-speaking Switzerland. It had just been committed to record the symphonies of Brahms to Vienna, when its death intervened.

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