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José Luis de Delás Franco (Born in Barcelona, Spain, in March 28th 1928 - died in Bornheim, Germany, September 21st 2018) was a [[:Category:Spain|Spanish]] conductor and composer.

== Biography == 
He received private violin lessons and studied at the Conservatory of Barcelona before making his first compositions, at 19 years of age. After studying a year of Law, he decided to devote himself completely to music, at a time when he met several future intellectuals of his age and was impressed by the works of the modern School of Vienna .

In 1949 he began composition and violin studies at the Musikhochschule in Munich , while working as a Spanish teacher. Between 1951 and 1954 he studied at the renowned academy of Hermann von Waltershausen , to learn composition and orchestra conducting in the quality environment he was looking for until then. In 1951 he married Barcelona singer Margarita Sabartés , his daughter Isabel was born the following year in Munich.

After returning from Germany, he developed his musical activity in Barcelona and Bilbao, where he directed the municipal orchestra, until his disagreement with the Franco regime led him to leave Spain in 1957, settling first in Aachen and shortly thereafter in Cologne . There he was influenced by Theodor Adorno and the writer Walter Benjamin , directed a painting gallery and was finally hired as director of recordings of the Department of Contemporary Music of the radio and television of Cologne, WDR . He also worked as a commentator, as well as in the Electronic Music Studio of the University of Utrecht from 1968 to 1970.

In 1975 he spent a long season in Naples for a research work and began his teaching activity teaching harmony, counterpoint and musical forms at the Cologne Conservatory, and shortly after composition at the Alanus-Hochschule de Alfter , near Bonn . During the 80's his recognition and activity in Spain increased, with premieres of his works, new commissions and training activities, while continuing his teaching at the University of Bonn , as Professor of Composition and Improvisation and Introduction to contemporary music From 1993 to 2005 he was professor of the Music Classroom of the University of Alcalá de Henares, combining it with his work in Germany. <sup>[1][2]</sup>

In 1995 he received the National Music Award for composition from the Ministry of Culture of Spain. <sup>[3][4]</sup>

== Works == 
His pieces were influenced by serialism, randomness and collage techniques. <sup>[4]</sup> His oeuvre includes the following works: <sup>[1]</sup>

* Borders (1964)
* Imago (1965)
* News (1967)
* Eilanden (1967)
* Clouds (1968)
* Episoden des Tages und der Nacht (1970)
* Outremer Clair et Foncé (1971)
* Five stamps (1972)
* Concetti (Concepts) (1975)
* Sets (1976)
* Denkbild Kurze Schatten (1977)
* Stories (1979)
* Les paroles et l'air (1985)
* Symbols of sonar (1990)
* To the sonorous crystal, to the mute crystal (1994)
* Texts (1996)
* Umbra Vitae (1998)
* Signs (2004/2005)
* Quadrant é Cel (2005)

== References == 
# tallersonoro.com - Study by José Luis Sánchez, September 2007.
# elpais.com - José Luis de Delas premieres his work "Conceptos" in Spain, November 1, 1980
# Ministry of Culture of Spain - National Music Award
#  La Vanguardia - National Music Award 1995, December 16, 1995

== Related content ==
[[An interpretation of the thoughts of José Luis de Delás regarding the political commitment in his music]]

== External links ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20190802033035/http://www.sulponticello.com/jose-luis-de-delas-de-nuevo-el-olvido%e2%80%a6/ Sul Ponticello - José Luis de Delás: again, oblivion ... ](III era, n. 53, October 2018)
* [https://elpais.com/cultura/2018/09/24/actualidad/1537775284_380908.html El País - A sad day for Spanish music](September 24, 2018)
* [http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/audios/ars-sonora/ars-sonora-in-memoriam-jose-luis-delas-23-02-19/5008258/ In memoriam José Luis de Delás in Ars Sonora (part I)] / [http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/audios/ars-sonora/ars-sonora-in-memoriam-jose-luis-delas-ii-02-03-19/5027039/ In memoriam José Luis de Delás in Ars Sonora (part II)]. Double monograph on the work of the composer in the radio program Ars Sonora, directed and presented by Miguel Álvarez-Fernández on Radio Clásica of RNE.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130608115026/http://esteticayfilosofiadelamusica.es/compositores/siglo-xx2/32-el-improbable-canon-musical-jose-luis-de-delas.html Aesthetics and philosophy of music - The improbable musical canon: José Luis de Delás] (September 27, 2010)
* [http://hemeroteca.abc.es/nav/Navigate.exe/hemeroteca/madrid/abc/1998/11/28/091.html ABC - The Autumn Festival honors Barcelona composer José Luis de Delás] (November 28, 1998)
* [http://hemeroteca.lavanguardia.es/preview/1967/09/23/pagina-26/34365855/pdf.html La Vanguardia - Intimate concert dedicated to the music of the composer José Luis de Delás] (September 23, 1967)

''Text adapted from the Spanish Wikipedia.''
[[Category: Spanish Profiles]]