Cristóbal Halffter

Cristóbal Halffter (born the March 24th 1930 with Madrid) is a Compositeur and Spanish Leader , one of the type-setters more for group known as of the Generación LED 51.

Biography

Cristóbal Halffter was born within a family from musicians (his/her uncles Rodolfo and Ernesto are also important type-setters). In 1936, fleeing the Spanish civil war, its family took refuge in Germany, where it made its elementary studies. They returned to Madrid in 1939, and Halftter studied the composition with Conrado del Campo with the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música of Madrid, where it obtains its diplomas in 1951. Apart from the academy, he studied with Alexandre Tansman and André Jolivet.

He worked with the Radio Nacional de España; it is also formed with the direction of orchestra. In 1952, its Antífona Pascual obtains a brilliant success, and in 1953 its Concierto para piano (Concerto for piano) gained the Premio Nacional de Música Nacional . Between 1955 and 1963, it was Leader of the Orquesta Falla. It then continues a career with success as type-setter and leader, while writing a music which combines to elements traditional Spanish with techniques of avant-garde. In 1961, it was appointed professor of composition and musical forms to the Real Conservatorio of Madrid; moreover it was appointed director of this center between 1964 and 1966.

In 1967, it obtains a purse to study with the Ford Fundation with the the United States and the DAAD of Berlin. He was reader with the Universidad de Navarra between 1970 and 1978 and with the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik with Darmstadt where he worked with Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Luciano Berio. Between 1976 and 1978, he was president of the Spanish section of the ISCM (International Society for Contemporary Music), and the following year, he was artistic director of the Studio of Electronic music to the Foundation Heinrich Strobel Foundation with Freiburg.

In 2000, Cristóbal Halffter, at 70 years, is always in the foreground of the artistic panorama. The February 23rd with the Teatro Real took place the first of sound opera Don Quijote , with a booklet of Andrés Amorós and based on the immortal work of Miguel de Cervantes and other poets Spanish. In 2006, took place the first in Germany (in the town of Kiel).

The August 4th 2003 with the Festival of Salzburg took place first world Adagio formed rondo for orchestra of it, ordered by the Philharmonic orchestra of Vienna, the direction being entrusted to Semyon Bychkov.

Currently Cristóbal Halffter resides at Madrid with his wife, the pianist María Manuela Caro.

Contribution

Cristóbal Halffter is one of the most important type-setters of the Generación LED 51, group of artists who renewed the Spanish musical landscape with the introduction of the musical techniques of the European avant-garde, like the Dodécaphonisme and the Sérialisme. This group made up of Tomás Marco, Shine of Pablo, Carmelo Bernaola, Joan Guinjoan and others, is regarded as essential in the Spanish classical music of the 20th century.

The first works of Cristóbal Halffter indicate a rather nationalist influence, but little by little it evolved to a style plus avant-gardist, integrating the most modern characteristics of its time in a personal language. In him mix the Atonalité, the Dodécaphonisme, the Sérialisme, the concrete musics , electronic, and also the use of the traditional forms.

The the United Nations ordered to him the Cantate Yes, speak out (text of Norman Corwin) to commemorate the XXe birthday of the Universal declaration of the Human rights. In 1981, it received the Medalla de Oro de Bellas Artes .

There is a group of works, in which obvious its concern for the Mort and the Au-delà appears: Llanto por tired víctimas of the violencia , for a group of room and electroacoustic (1971), Elegía with the muerte of very poetas españoles (1975) and the Officium defunctuorum for orchestra and chorus, whose first took place with the Hôtel of the Invalids of Paris (1979).

The essence of its music is published by Universal Edition.

Price and distinctions

Works

  • Antífona Pascual (1952)

  • Concierto para piano there orquesta (1953)
  • Very piezas para cuarteto of cuerda (1955)
  • ducal Misa (1956)
  • Introducción, fuga there final para piano (1957)
  • Sonata for violin alone (1959)
  • Microformas for orchestra (1960)
  • Sinfonía, for three instrumental groups (1963)
  • Secuencias (1965)
  • Líneas there puntos for 20 average wind instruments and electroacoustics (1966)
  • Anillos , for orchestra
  • Cantata Symposium (1968)
  • Cantata " Yes, speak out" (1968)
  • Noche passivated LED sentido for soprano, two percussionnists and 4 tape recorders (1970)
  • Llanto por tired víctimas of the violencia , for a group of room and electroacoustic (1971)
  • Réquiem por the libertad imaginada (1971)
  • Pinturas will negras (1972)
  • Gaudium and Spes-Beunza (1972)
  • Platero there yo (1974)
  • Elegías with the muerte of very poetas españoles (1975), from where was drawn a film for the German television, which received the Italia prices and the Emmy,
  • Officium defunctuorum , for orchestra and chorus, first with the Hôtel of the Invalids of Paris (1979)
  • Tiento (1981)
  • Dona nobis pacem (1984)
  • Motetes (1989)
  • Preludio Madrid 92 , made up opening to celebrate the European designation of Madrid like capital of the culture .
  • Gift Quijote , opera (2000)
  • Adagio formed rondo of it, for orchestra (2003)

Quotation

Art is always made by an human being and is the fruit of its sensitivity. In each work, it there with the mark of the moment when it was made. For that art for art's sake does not exist, it would be inhuman.

External bonds

  • Página de Cristóbal Halffter (idiot ejemplos of audio there scores) in Universal Edition

  • Cristóbal Halffter in El Poder of Palavered

  • sober Foot-note el estreno of " Gift Quijote".

  • Entrevista has Cristóbal Halffter has propósito " Gift Quijote" in Revista de El Mundo.

  • Biografía in Radio operator Beethoven

  • IRCAM: Cristóbal Halffter

  • Cristóbal Halffter in http://www.classical-composers.org/

  • Representaciones de Don Quijote in http://www.operabase.com/

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