# Felip Pedrell > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Felip_Pedrell > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Felip_Pedrell.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felip_Pedrell > Source revision: 1348432317 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Catalan composer and musician}} {{Expand Catalan|topic=bio|date=November 2023}} {{family name hatnote|Pedrell|Sabaté|lang=Spanish}} {{Infobox person | name = Felip Pedrell Sabaté | image = Felipe Pedrell 01.jpg | caption = Felip Pedrell | birth_date = {{Birth date|1841|2|19|df=y}} | birth_place = [Tortosa](/source/Tortosa), [Catalonia](/source/Catalonia), [Spain](/source/Spain) | death_date = {{Death date and age|1922|8|19|1841|2|19|df=y}} | death_place = [Barcelona](/source/Barcelona), [Catalonia](/source/Catalonia), [Spain](/source/Spain) | resting_place = Sant Gervasi Cemetery, Barcelona | other_names = | known_for = ''L'último Abenzeraggio'' (in Italian; Spanish title: ''El último abencerraje'') (libretto: J. B. Altés), opera in 4 acts | occupation = composer, guitarist and musicologist }} '''Felip Pedrell Sabaté''' (Spanish: Felipe) (19 February 1841 – 19 August 1922) was a Catalan composer, guitarist and musicologist. ==Life== Pedrell was born in [Tortosa](/source/Tortosa) ([Catalonia](/source/Catalonia)), and sang as a boy soprano at [Tortosa Cathedral](/source/Tortosa_Cathedral) from age 9, where he also received most of his musical education from its chapel master Joan Nin i Serra (1804–1867). On 29 September 1867 he married Carmen Domingo, with whom he had one daughter, also named Carmen.Bonastre, Francesc: "Pedrell i Sabaté, Felipe", in: ''Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart'' (MGG), biographical part, vol. 13 (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2005), cc. 232–234. In 1873 he went to [Barcelona](/source/Barcelona) where he co-directed a [zarzuela](/source/zarzuela) troupe and studied the guitar with [José Brocá](/source/Jos%C3%A9_Broc%C3%A1). As a guitarist, he became deeply influenced by [Francisco Tárrega](/source/Francisco_T%C3%A1rrega) and dedicated several of his compositions to him (''Impromptu'', ''Floriada''). By this time he had already written over 100 compositions, most of which salon music for piano, some songs, and works for the stage such as the opera ''L'último Abenzeraggio'' (first version: 1868), which was performed at the [Teatro del Liceo](/source/Liceu) in 1874. Between 1876 and 1880, Pedrell lived mainly in Italy and France: in Rome he discovered his musicological interest, and in Paris he worked mainly in composition, writing his song-cycle ''Orientales'' (words by [Victor Hugo](/source/Victor_Hugo)) and the [symphonic poem](/source/symphonic_poem) ''Excelsior'' (1880).Bonastre (2005), as above. In February 1880, he settled in Barcelona as a music teacher and composer, where he made the acquaintance of [Isaac Albéniz](/source/Isaac_Alb%C3%A9niz) and [Enrique Granados](/source/Enrique_Granados) who became his first pupils. Other notable pupils included the composers [Rosa García Ascot](/source/Rosa_Garc%C3%ADa_Ascot), [Manuel de Falla](/source/Manuel_de_Falla), and [Joan Lamote de Grignon](/source/Joan_Lamote_de_Grignon).{{See LMST|Felip|Pedrell}} After another performance of ''L'último Abenzeraggio'' in 1889, Pedrell seriously considered the founding of an "escuela nacional de música" (national school of music), combining elements of Spanish traditional music with the classical art music of his time. The first result was the opera ''[Els Pirineus](/source/Els_Pirineus)'' (1891), underlining his concept theoretically with the publication ''Por nuestra música'' (To Our Music; 1891),Bonastre (2005), as above. which made many composers and guitarists of his time aware of Spanish folklore. Influences were visible in [Roberto Gerhard](/source/Roberto_Gerhard)'s eight Pedrell-derived folk-tunes (''Cancionero de Pedrell''), and [Manuel de Falla](/source/Manuel_de_Falla)'s "Pedrelliana" – the last of his four ''Homenajes'' ("homages") (1939). Between 1891 and 1904, Pedrell lived in Madrid, where he became a member of the [Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando](/source/Real_Academia_de_Bellas_Artes_de_San_Fernando) in 1895 and had a professorship in musical aesthetics and music history at the [Real Conservatorio](/source/Madrid_Royal_Conservatory). In 1894, the first volume of his ''Hispaniae schola musica sacra'' appeared, a series of edited scores of renaissance and baroque church music from Spain. As a musicologist, Pedrell worked particularly in the [early music](/source/early_music) field and edited [Victoria](/source/Tomas_Luis_de_Victoria)'s ''opera omnia'' and the requiem of [Joan Brudieu](/source/Joan_Brudieu). This and other of his writings fostered a keen interest in the early music of Spain. He returned to Barcelona in 1904, when his opera ''Els Pirineus'' was eventually performed. When his daughter died in 1912, Pedrell fully withdrew from public life. His last pupils, the musicologist Higinio Anglès and the composer Roberto Gerhard, assisted Pedrell in his last publications and compositions. He died in [Barcelona](/source/Barcelona) and was buried in the [Sant Gervasi Cemetery](/source/Sant_Gervasi_Cemetery). The composer [Carlos Pedrell](/source/Carlos_Pedrell) (1878–1941) is his nephew. The personal papers of Felip Pedrell are preserved in the [Biblioteca de Catalunya](/source/Library_of_Catalonia). Among his main direct disciples are [Isaac Albéniz](/source/Isaac_Alb%C3%A9niz), [Enrique Granados](/source/Enrique_Granados), [Cristòfor Taltabull](/source/Crist%C3%B2for_Taltabull), [Pedro Blanco](/source/Pedro_Blanco_L%C3%B3pez), [Joaquín Turina](/source/Joaqu%C3%ADn_Turina) and [Manuel de Falla](/source/Manuel_de_Falla). ==Works== '''Operas''' *''L'último Abenzeraggio'' (in Italian; Spanish title: ''El último abencerraje'') (libretto: J. B. Altés), opera in 4 acts (1868, revised 1874 and 1889) *''Quasimodo'' (libretto: J. Barrer, after [Victor Hugo](/source/Victor_Hugo)), opera in 4 acts (1875) *''Els Pirineus'' (libretto: [Victor Balaguer](/source/Victor_Balaguer)), opera in a prologise and 3 acts (1891) *''La Celestina'' (libretto: Pedrell, after [Fernando de Rojas](/source/Fernando_de_Rojas)), opera in 4 acts (1902) *''El comte Arnau'' (libretto: [Joan Maragall](/source/Joan_Maragall)), "festival lirich popular" (1904) *five other operas and eight [zarzuela](/source/zarzuela)s '''Instrumental works''' *''Nocturnos-trío'' (1873) *''La veu de les muntanyes'' (1877), symphonic poem *''Excelsior'' (1880), symphonic poem *many works for piano and guitar '''Songs''' for voice and piano *''Noches de España'' (1871) *''Orientales'' ([Victor Hugo](/source/Victor_Hugo)) (1876) *''Consolations'' ([Théophile Gautier](/source/Th%C3%A9ophile_Gautier)) (1876) *''La primavera'' (F. Matheu) (1880) *''Canciones arabescas'' (1906) '''Choral music''' *56 sacred songs in Latin *27 works in colloquial Spanish or Catalan *18 works for chorus and orchestra ==References== {{reflist}} *{{cite encyclopedia | year = 2006 | title = Pedrell, Felipe | encyclopedia = Britannica Concise Library | publisher = Britannica }} *[https://www.lamadeguido.com/f_pedrell.html More information with scores and music] ==External links== * {{Internet Archive author |sname=Felip Pedrell}} *[https://www.bnc.cat/eng/Collections/Search-the-collections/Pedrell-Felip Personal papers of Felip Pedrell in the Biblioteca de Catalunya]. {{Musical nationalism}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Pedrell, Felipe}} Category:1841 births Category:1922 deaths Category:19th-century classical composers Category:19th-century male composers Category:19th-century Spanish composers Category:19th-century Spanish male composers Category:20th-century classical composers Category:20th-century Spanish composers Category:20th-century male composers Category:20th-century Spanish male musicians Category:Classical composers from Catalonia Category:Composers for the classical guitar Category:Male opera composers Category:Opera composers from Catalonia Category:People from Tortosa Category:Spanish classical composers Category:Spanish male classical composers Category:Spanish opera composers Category:Spanish Romantic composers --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Felip Pedrell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felip_Pedrell) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felip_Pedrell?action=history)). 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