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Gerhard’s reputation as a composer in Britain developed slowly because of British nationalistic sentiments during and immediately after the Second World War, which prompted institutions such as the BBC and London orchestras to put much of their energy into the promotion of native composers, culminating in the Festival of Britain in 1951.
Jun 8, 2024 · Mark E. Perry’s chapter, ‘Gerhard as Composer in Exile’, examines the musician’s identification with both his native and adopted cultures—shifting between being viewed as a Catalan, a Spanish, or a modernist composer at different times.
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 – which ensured that ...
by Calum MacDonald. Roberto Gerhard ended his career in the very forefront of musical modernism, producing in his last 15 years a series of scores notable for their scintillating textural invention and their almost Varesian cragginess of expression.
Aug 3, 2024 · Born in Valls, Catalonia in 1896 to a Swiss German father and Alsatian mother, Roberto Gerhard was one of the foremost Spanish composers of the twentieth century. Regarded as a true 'citizen of the world', Gerhard's expertise extended across languages and cultures.
Jul 3, 2021 · Gerhard was one of the most prominent Spanish composers of the 20th century. His creative output encompasses works influenced by Catalan folk music, serialism, works for dance, film and the theatre as well as electronic sound composition.
The recommendations made by Dent and John B. Trend emphasising Gerhard’s merits as a Catalan musicologist and composer played a key role in his securing the scholarship. 12 The only condition of the scholarship was that Gerhard settle in Cambridge: ‘If we are successful in inviting you … you would be free to continue your research and ...
