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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’.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Aug 11, 2024 · Considering Gerhard’s complex relationship with Spanish culture and identity, his composition of Don Quixote, the concluding work on this disc and the longest, was practically foreordained. Schoenberg’s serial procedures are idiosyncratically adapted here by Gerhard, but to ends more apparent to the eyes of musicologists following along with the score, than to the ear of the average listener.
THE SYMPHONIES OF ROBERTO GERHARD by Paul Conway. Roberto Gerhard was born to a French mother and a Catalan father on 25 th September 1896 at Valls near Barcelona. He studied the piano with Granados in Barcelona between 1915 and 1916 and composition with Felipe Pedrell until the latter's death in 1922. Gerhard then travelled to Vienna and on to ...
An introduction to Gerhard’s music 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.
