Dutch conductor Henrie Adams died.
Dutch conductor Henrie Adams died.
Spain
Barcelona is not only football
It is well known among sports fans that football is very important in Barcelona. Almost 8 million tourists visit the city and its sights every year. Clivis Pubications is based in Barcelona and probably only a very small proportion of these visitors come for the local publishing. Nevertheless, Clivis is …
Spanish composer Juan Vicente Mas Quiles dies at the age of 100.
The well-known Spanish composer and arranger Juan Vicente Mas Quiles has always been closely associated with the renowned wind orchestra Banda Primitiva (El Clarin) from his birthplace Lliria near Valencia. Born on 25 January 1921, he played the flute in the orchestra as a boy and was later a member …
Spanish composer Juan Vicente Mas Quiles dies at the age of 100. Weiterlesen »
A Don Quixote of our time died.
…this was the title of the report on the death of the Spanish composer Cristobal Halffter in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Halffter was one of the most important Spanish composers of the present day, who – although his curriculum vitae was that of a cosmopolitan – was committed to his …
Monograph on clarinet and wind music in Spain
The book The Clarinte in Spain: Miguel Yuste Moreno (1870-1947) is the first monograph on clarinet and wind music in Spain that examines the professionalization of Spanish clarinettists of the early 19th century. The social, academic and professional environment of wind musicians is addressed by the case study of the …
