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Generación del 51

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Josep Maria Mestres Quadreny with Bartomeu Marí, MACBA director, during the presentation of Joan Brossa Archive

Generación del 51 is a designation for one of a series of "generations" of Spanish composers, identifying a group born between 1924 and 1938.

Members of this group of composers from the Basque and Castilian-speaking regions of Spain include[2]:

Juan Hidalgo Codorniu. Photo sourced from El Cultural Canario (elculturalcanario.com)

In their earlier works, members of this generation tended toward the avant-garde, with post-Webernian serialism evident in the work of Halffter and Luis de Pablo in particular. By the end of the 1970s a mellowing of their language becomes apparent, and during the 1980s many of them began to turn to tonality of one sort or another[2].

The Catalan members of this generation are associated with the reforming and renewing tendencies that emerged after the post-Civil War isolation [1][2]:

Soler's compositional palette involves serial techniques, and he is particularly noted for his dramatic music [2].

References

  1. Gómez, Maricarmen. 2001. "Barcelona". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.
  2. Perez Castillo, Belen. 2001. "Spain, §I: Art music: 6. 20th century". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.

Further reading

  • Charles Soler, Agustín. 2002. Análisis de la música española del siglo XX: En torno a la Generación del 51. Valencia: Rivera.
  • Sagastume, Manu. 1996. "La Generación del 51." Kantuz, no. 32 (July–August): 27.

Text translated and adapted from the Spanish Wikipedia