Olallo Morales (1874-1957)

Javier Perianes

By the beginning of the 20th century, the Swedish music world had matured ­significantly, as can be seen from the work of composers like Natanel Berg, Oscar Lindberg, Kurt Altteberg and another, whose name had a somewhat exotic sound in a country like Sweden: Olallo Morales. Olallo Juan Magnus Morales Wilksman (1874-1957), to give him his full name, was the son of diplomat, astronomer and ­meteorologist Olallo Morales Lupión (1852-1889) and his Swedish wife, Zelma, who was an accomplished pianist. The Morales-Wilksman marriage also produced other musicians: Zelmica who was a ...+ info

Pedro Rabassa (1683-1767)

Coro Juan Navarro Hispalensis

Conductor: Josep Cabré

Barcelona, Valencia and Seville are the three cities that marked the professional career of Pedro Rabassa. He was born in Barcelona in 1683, and grew up there as a choirboy in the cathedral, until he became a singer and harpist. These were the times of Francisco Valls, the author of the controversial Scala Aretina mass, whose influence was felt in Rabassa’s later works as a composer. After a brief period at the cathedral of Vic, where he became chapel-master in 1713, he then spent from 1714 to 1724 in charge of the chapel of Valencia cathedral. His arrival in Seville in July 1724 was to ...+ info

I Concurso de

Varios

There can be no doubt that the Cante Jondo contest held in Granada during the Corpus celebrations on 13 and 14 June 1922 was an important milestone in the history of flamenco, although some scholars, looking back on it from our current perspective, question the timeliness of its celebration, the organisational model and its restrictive rules. It is true that almost a century later, and having witnessed the course that flamenco has taken over this long journey, some of the premises on which the contest was based could be considered exceedingly alarmist –especially that the purest forms of...+ info