Jesús Arámbarri

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Jesús Arámbarri Gárate (13 April 1902 in

Basque Country
.

Jesús Arámbarri has been classed among the cultural treasures of the region, with

José María Usandizaga.[4]

After his early music education at the Bilbao Conservatory of Music,[5] Arámbarri's teachers[4][5] included Paul Le Flem, Paul Dukas[2][3] and Vladimir Golschmann in Paris and Felix Weingartner in Basel.

Arámbarri composed some of his most important works while he was a student.[6] After his return to Bilbao he was primarily a conductor and composed only a few more works, which included In memoriam for Juan Carlos de Gortázar (1939),[7] Ofrenda (Offering) for Manuel de Falla (1946),[7] and Dedicatoria (Dedication) for Javier Arisqueta (1949).[4]

From 1933 in Bilbao,

Madrid Symphony Orchestra, and served as president of the Spanish Conductors' Association. In 1953, he was appointed conductor of the Banda Sinfónica de Madrid,[8]
which had been founded in 1909.

Jesús Arámbarri died in 1960 at the

Parque del Buen Retiro while conducting the Banda Sinfónica de Madrid in concert
.

Selected recordings

References

  1. the Basque country, this tradition is the most hidden and, in some ways, the most typical. It has been hard perhaps to publicise such cultural treasures as Arriaga, Pablo Sarasate, Jesús Guridi, Jesús Arámbarri, Luís de Pablo or indeed Maurice Ravel in the musical world while the Eta
    campaign held the headlines.
  2. ^
    Manuel Ponce
    , and the Basque conductor, Jesús Arámbarri, who would later become a great interpreter of the works of Rodrigo.
  3. ^ a b c "Joaquín Rodrigo (1901-1999)". MusicWeb International. Archived from the original on 2015-03-23. Like his compatriots, Jesus Guridi (1886-1961) [and] Jesus Arambarri (1902-1960), Rodrigo studied in Paris with Paul Dukas. Joaquin Turina (1882-1949) was another who came under the all-pervasive French influence of the 1920s and 1930s.
  4. ^
    Naxos Records. "Biography of Jesús Arámbarri"
    .
  5. ^
    Chester Novello. "Biography of Jesús Arámbarri"
    .
  6. conductor Juan José Mena, soprano Itxaro Mentxaka. Archived from the original on 2011-05-17. Retrieved 2007-10-29. His small compositional output bears the hallmarks of a highly talented creative mind. Some of his most important works date from his student years: the Four Impromptus, the orchestral prelude Gabon-zar sorginak (Witches on New Year's Eve) and the Eight Basque Songs for soprano and orchestra. (ASIN B00009L4W4
    )
  7. ^
    Three-Cornered Hat, over which the sorrowful voice of the cor anglais gradually unfolds a tune that develops motifs taken from Falla's music. The latter quotes from the chorus of Guridi's Asi cantan los chicos, whose text was by Gortazar, and from the Gregorian Dies irae
    . (Excerpt from a much longer and very detailed review.)
  8. ^ "Banda Sinfónica Historia". Madrid Municipal website (in Spanish).
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