Emilio Pujol
Emilio Pujol Vilarrubi ( cat. Emili Pujol i Vilarrubi; born April 7, 1886 in La Grana Della, Catalonia, † November 15, 1980 in Barcelona) was a Spanish guitarist and composer.
The development of modern art of guitar playing was heavily influenced by Francisco Tárrega. Although he owned and his work was rather well into the 19th century, but to global success his pioneering work until after the turn of the century to the 20th century through the teaching and concert activities of his two pupils Miguel Llobet and Emilio Pujol.
Life
At first, Emilio Pujol played on Pandora and was a soloist in an orchestra that consisted of Pandora and guitars. With the success of this ensemble performed during the Paris World Exposition 1900.
Finally Pujol attended the music school in Barcelona. Here he met Francisco Tárrega know and was from 1902 to 1909 whose students (as well as Miguel Llobet and Daniel Fortea ). After Tárrega's death in 1909, Pujol studied music theory and composition with Agustin Campo, a student of Dionisio Aguado, at the Madrid Conservatory.
As a soloist, he made his debut in 1907 in Lleida and 1909 in Barcelona. In 1912, he has performed at the Wigmore Hall in London. Mediated by his friend Pablo Antonio de Bejar, he played in Madrid and later in front of the Spanish royal family (including Queen Victoria). In 1923 he married the flamenco guitarist Matilde Cuevas, with whom he also appeared in a duet.
In addition to his concert and teaching activities, he also gained by merit, that he edited old lute and guitar music. In the famous library old and new music by Emilio Pujol he was until then unknown together works from the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Together with Felipe Pedrellian and later in París with Lionel de la Laurencie he ran musicological studies.
Pujol is also the author of several didactic works and a guitar school Escuela de la guitarra razionada that has the Tárrega method for basis. From 1947 to 1969 Pujol worked as a professor of guitar at the National Conservatory in Lisbon. He was appointed by Andrés Segovia as a lecturer at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana. One of his students ( Rüdiger Zieroth ) compared him and Tárrega once with Socrates and Plato.
The new guitar school
Tárrega was the " reformer " of the style of play on the guitar and founder of the so-called new Spanish guitar school. The characteristic feature of this direction was to the powerful and great sound that he understood most out of the instrument by using appropriate, invented by him playing techniques. These types of sound production, through which the tone was long lasting and full, became the basis of contemporary Spanish guitaristic. Emilio Pujol was next to Miguel Llobet an influential spokesman and propagandist of Tárrega method.
The concert tours
Pujol gave his first recital in 1907 in Lleida. After seven years of study, he finally toured first in Spain, then in South America ( Buenos Aires 1918 ). In 1922 he took up his residence in Paris. From here he went on concert tours in several countries.
Works
Emilio Pujol composed many of his own works, created over 275 transcriptions and arrangements for guitar and wrote "La Guitarra " the first encyclopedia on the history of the guitar.
- El Abejorro
- Ondinas
- Canción de Cuna
- Barcarolle
- Cubana
- Impromptu
- Piezas Españolas
- Pieza n º 2 ( Guajira o Evocación Cubana )
- Pieza n º 3 ( Tango Español)
- Preludios
- Scottish Madrileño
- Seville
- Danzas Españolas
- Tango
Solo Guitar:
- ME 7899 Aquelarre ( Danse des sorcières - 1969) Pujol n ° 1246
- ME 7028 Atardecer ( Crépuscule ) Pujol n ° 1229
- ME 7238 Barcarolle Pujol n ° 1235
- ME 7580 Becqueriana ( Endecha ) Pujol n ° 1240
- Cancion de Cuna ME 3130 ( Berceuse ) Pujol n ° 1203
- ME 7884 Canto de Otono ( Chant d' automne ) Pujol n ° 1245
- ME 7939 Cap i Cua (variation désuète sur l' exercice d' Aguado 19 ) Pujol n ° 1248
- ME 7848 Caprice sur un thème d' Aguado varié Pujol n ° 1242
- ME 7541 Endecha a la Amada Ausente Pujol n ° 1238
- ME 2186 Étude n ° 1 Pujol n ° 1200
- ME 2187 Étude n ° 2 Pujol n ° 1201
- ME 2188 Étude n ° 3 Pujol n ° 1202
- ME 3128 Exercices de formes d' études, 1 Cahier n ° Pujol 1221
- ME 7847 2 Cahier n ° Pujol 1243
- ME 2189 Impromptu Pujol n ° 1206
- ME 7579 La Libelula Pujol n ° 1239
- ME 2586-88 Trois Morceaux espagnols: 1 Tonadilla, Tango 2, 3 Guajira Pujol n ° 1204
- ME 3129 Pequena Romanza Pujol n ° 1222
- ME 7885 Pizzicato Pujol n ° 1247
- ME 7236 Two Preludes Pujol n ° 1233
- ME 7027 Rapsodie Valenciana Pujol n ° 1228
- ME 2190 Seville ( Evocation ) Pujol n ° 1205
- ME 7030 Triquilandia ( Jugando al Escondite ) Pujol n ° 1231
- ME 7237 2e Triquilandia: 1 Œdipe et le Sphinx, second variation, 3 jeu, La Plume de perdreau 4, 5 branle bourguignon Pujol n ° 1234
- ME 7533 3e Triquilandia: 1 Le Petit Grenadier, 2nd Cantilène, 3 Valse Pujol n ° 1241
- ME 7991 triptyque campagnard (1971 ): 1 Aube, Bucolique 2, 3 Fête Pujol n ° 1249
- ME 7883 Variations sur un thème obsédant Pujol n ° 1244
- ME 7029 Veneciana Pujol n ° 1230
Two Guitars:
- ME 8046 Canaries ( Canarios ), air de danse populaire ancienne Pujol n ° 1415
- ME 8081-01 Duet ( étude ) Pujol n ° 1417a
- ME 6942 Manola del Avapies ( Tonadilla ) Pujol n ° 1403
- ME 7239 ricercare Pujol n ° 1409
- ME 8081 Zip Line ( Tirolesa ) Pujol n ° 1417b
Known students
- Miguel Abloniz (1917-2001, Italy)
- Dimitris Fampas (1921-1996, Greece)
- Javier Hinojosa ( born 1933, Mexico)
- Isaac Nicola (1916-1997, Cuba ): Cuban Guitar School
- Alberto Ponce ( b. 1935, Spain)
- Hopkinson Smith ( b. 1946, USA): The most important lutenist the presence
- Pieter van der Staak (1930-2007, Netherlands)
- Luise Walker (1910-1998, Austria ): Viennese guitar school