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Two years after Gerhard’s death, Francis Routh, in his book Contemporary British Music, included a lengthy discussion on Roberto Gerhard, albeit in the section titled ‘British by Choice: The Influence of Other Traditions’. While Routh praises the music of Gerhard, the Catalan-born composer remains in the category of ‘other’.
In a January 1963 New York Times story, Roberto Gerhard is described as a ‘Spanish-born composer who went to Vienna to study with Arnold Schoenberg and then, in 1929 [sic], took up residence in England’. 3 While this description says much about Gerhard’s cosmopolitan lifestyle, it offers little about the circumstances that shaped this identity. Much about Gerhard’s identity was ...
Sep 23, 2024 · Gerhard: Don Quixote, Alegrías & Pedrelliana (BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena) A great, under-represented 20th-century ballet score, stunningly recorded. Roberto Gerhard (1896-1970) was a Catalan-born, Spanish composer. His two early teachers were the pedagogue Felipe Pedrell (who also taught Granados and Manuel de Falla), and Arnold Schoenberg.
A Repertoire: Modern. Roberto Gerhard. Gerhard (1896 – 1970) was a Catalan composer who fled to Britain in the 1930s during the Spanish Civil War and settled in Cambridge. Erudite, articulate, with wide-ranging cultural interests, he at one point studied under Schoenberg and had, by the 1950s, developed his own complex version of serialism ...
On Gerhard's discourses on musical modernity after his studies with Schoenberg, see Diego Alonso, ‘Challenging Schoenberg's Modernism: Gerhard's Music and Aesthetics at the Turn of the 1930s’, in Perspectives on Gerhard: Selected Proceedings of the 2nd and 3rd International Roberto Gerhard Conferences, ed. Michael Russ and Monty Adkins (Huddersfield: University of Huddersfield, 2015).
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Sep 25, 2024 · Roberto Gerhard (1896–1970)Alegrías (1943) Pedrelliana (En memoria) (1941; revised 1954) Don Quixote (1941; second version 1949) BBC Philharmonic/Juanjo Mena rec. 2023, MediaCityUK, Salford, Manchester, UK Chandos CHAN20268 [61] The Spanish composer Robert Gerhard studied first with Felip Pedrell, who had taught Albéniz, Granados and Falla ...
Gerhard took part in explicitly ideological cultural debates at key historical intersections of the 20th century. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, while in Berlin in Weimar Germany as a student of Arnold Schoenberg, and during the Spanish Second Republic (1931–9), his work as an intellectual and musician embraced the political role of culture and art in the fight against fascism and for the ...
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