Salvador Bacarisse

Salvador Bacarisse Chinoria ( born September 12, 1898 in Madrid; † August 5, 1963 in Paris) was a Spanish musician and composer.

Life

Salvador Bacarisse Chinoria studied music at the Conservatorio de Música in Madrid Real Manuel Fernández Alberdi (piano) and Conrado del Campo (composition). He was a senior member of the Grupo de los Ocho and helped in the promotion of new music as artistic director of Unión Radio until 1936.

Bacarisse was a member of the Communist Party of Spain and went to the Spanish Civil War into exile in Paris. From 1945 until his death he worked for Radio Télévision Française as speaker of Spanish language programs.

Work

Bacarisse composed for piano, mixed chamber ensembles, operas, including El tesoro de Boabdil which won an award from a French radio station in 1958, and orchestral works, including four piano concertos and a violin concerto.

His most famous work is now El Concertino para guitarra y orquesta en la menor Opus 72 ( "Concertino for Guitar and Orchestra in A Minor "), which he composed in neoromantischem style 1957.

His " Andalusian fantasy " is a short piece, and is gaining in popularity in the repertoire for harp and orchestra.

• Spanish musicians
• Spanish composer
• PCE- Member
• Born in 1898
• Died in 1963
• Man