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Artist
Manuel Blancafort
12+ albums
catalan music
about
Composer, born in La Garriga (Barcelona) in 1897 and died in Barcelona in 1987. He studied with his father, Joan Blancafort, and with J.Lamote de Grignon. He did not have a formal training as a pianist. As he explicitly recognized, the pianola roll factory Victoria, owned by his father, was his true academy where he learned a lot about music by perforating paper rolls of Debussy, Ravel or Stravinsky. Besides, his travels to Paris allowed him some intellectual contacts besides the purely commercial ones. His friendship with Mompou, who witnessed his early attempts at composition, was decisive to his decision to undertake composition clandestine activity due to his father's resistance, until his first works were published a few years later. Blancafort was member of a group of Catalan composers that started publishing their first works just before the twenties trying to break with wagnerism and nationalism. As he wrote in 1929, "To get rid of Wagner is, in my opinion, the first commandment of the new Catalan music...A few of us in Catalonia would rather lean towards Paris than to Berlin". The group was formally organized in 1931 as the "Asociación de Compositores Independientes de Catalunya (CIC)" and counted Toldrà, Mompou, Samper and Gerhard as members. His first works consist of small scale piano pieces, songs and choral pieces in a fresh style very close to that of Mompou and indebted to Satie, Debussy and les Six. Both aimed to maximum expressiveness through minimum means
top songs
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7 Peces de joventut (Youthful Pieces): Record
71,216212 Cancons: Canconeta per adormir
1,776312 Cancons: Canco en la solitud
492412 Cancons: 1 Canco
37557 Peces de joventut (Youthful Pieces): Paraules de queixa
3006Cancons de muntanya (Mountain songs): IV. Canco de l'adeu
2557Cants intims I: La mare canta i el bressol gronxa
2528Cancons de muntanya (Mountain songs): II. Canco dalt del cingle
2529Pastorella
1841012 Cancons: Senyora Isabel (1st version)
153albums
Blancafort, M.: Piano Music, Vol. 1 - Peces De Joventut / Cancons De Muntanya / Notes D'Antany
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Blancafort, M.: Piano Music, Vol. 2 - Jocs I Danses Al Camp / Cants Intims I
Blancafort, M.: Piano Music, Vol. 1 - Peces De Joventut / Cancons De Muntanya / Notes D'Anta
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Blancafort, M.: Piano Music, Vol. 4 - American Souvenir / Sonatina Antiga / Ermita I Panorama / Romanca, Intermedi I Marxa
BLANCAFORT: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 1
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Manuel Blancafort: Piano Works
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Miquel Villalba, Blancafort: Piano Music, Vol. 1
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Blancafort: Complete Songs, Vol. 2
Blancafort, M.: Piano Music, Vol. 5
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Canco de l'hivern
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Manuel Blancafort - Obra completa per a piano, Vol. 4
BLANCAFORT: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 2