Josep Soler i Sardà, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Josep Soler i Sardà

Spanish composer

Date of Birth: 25-Mar-1935

Place of Birth: Vilafranca del Penedès, Catalonia, Spain

Profession: writer, composer, musicologist, music theorist, music journalist

Nationality: Spain

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Josep Soler i Sardà

  • Josep Soler i Sardà (born 25 March 1935 in Vilafranca del Penedès) is a Spanish composer, writer and music theorist, one of the main Catalan members of the Generación del 51.
  • He studied composition and orchestration with Cristòfor Taltabull, and was also a pupil of René Leibowitz in Paris. Soler's works include 16 operas, 7 symphonies, 3 piano concertos, 7 String Quartets, 16 Sonatas for piano and an orchestration of Isaac Albéniz's Pepita Jiménez, inter alia.
  • Since 1982, he has taught at the Reial Acadèmia Catalana de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi (Royal Catalan Academy of Fine Arts of Saint George) in Barcelona.
  • His students have included Benet Casablancas and Alejandro Civilotti. In 2013, Soler was awarded the Gold Medal of Merit in Fine Arts awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Culture.
  • He refused this honour, stating: "Aceptar el reconocimiento sería aceptar la autoridad del Gobierno español, y yo no quiero saber nada del ministro Wert ni del gobierno de Rajoy, porque a ellos no les interesa en absoluto ni la cultura ni la educación." ("To acknowledge this recognition is to acknowledge the authority of the Spanish government, and I do not want anything to do with minister [José Ignacio] Wert and the government of [Prime Minister Mariano] Rajoy, because they are not interested at all in either music or education.")

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