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[[File:Luis de Pablo.jpg|thumb|Spanish composer Luís de Pablo. Photo by SIGMA PROJECT ]]
Luis de Pablo Costales (born 28 January 1930) is a [[:Category: Spain|Spanish]] composer who belongs to the generation of Spanish composers named by Cristóbal Halffter as Generación del 51.


== Biography ==
Luis de Pablo was born in Bilbao but moved with his mother and siblings to Madrid after losing his father in the Spanish Civil War at age six. Although he started to compose at the age of 12, his circumstances made it impossible to consider an artistic career, and so he studied law at the Universidad Complutense. For a short time after graduating in 1952, he was employed as legal advisor to Iberia Airlines, but soon resigned this post in order to pursue a career in music. Although he received composition lessons from Maurice Ohana and Max Deutsch, he was essentially an autodidact in composition. His participation at the Darmstadt courses in 1959 led to the performance of some of his works under Boulez and Maderna (Heine 2001).

He was awarded Spain's Premio Nacional de Música for composition in 1991.

In Spain, he founded several organizations: Nueva Música, Tiempo y Música, and Alea and organized several contemporary music concert series, for example, the Forum Musical and Bienal de Música Contemporánea de Madrid. He was particularly concerned with promoting understanding in Spain of the Second Viennese School, publishing translations of Stuckenschmidt’s biography of Arnold Schoenberg in 1961, and the writings of Anton Webern in 1963 (Heine 2001). He is much in demand as a teacher, both in Spain and internationally.

The world premiere of his opera La señorita Cristina (Miss Cristina), based on a novel by Mircea Eliade, with a stage design by José Hernández, took place in 2001 at Teatro Real (Royal Theatre) in Madrid (Salas 2001).

== Selected works ==
Luis de Pablo Costales has released more than 143 pieces including:

* 1953 – Gárgolas
* 1954 – Coral eucarístico
* 1954 – Sinfonías
* 1954–66 – Sinfonías
* 1955 – Invenciones
* 1956 – Concierto para clavicémbalo
* 1956 – Misa Pax humilium,
* 1956 – Elegía
* 1956 – Tres Piezas para guitarra
* 1956 – Comentarios a dos
* 1957 – Móvil I
* 1957 – Cinco Invenciones
* 1958 – Sonata para piano
* 1958 – Cuarteto nº 1
* 1959 – Progressus
* 1959–67 – Móvil II
* 1960 – Radial
* 1961 – Glosa
* 1961–62 – Polar
* 1961–62 – Libro para el pianista
* 1962 – Condicionado
* 1962 – Prosodia
* 1962–63 – Tombeau
* 1963 – Recíproco
* 1963 – Cesuras
* 1964 – Escena
* 1964–65 – Módulos I
* 1965 – Ein Wort
* 1965 – Mitología I
* 1965–67 – Módulos IV
* 1965–66 – Iniciativas
* 1966 – Módulos II
* 1967 – Imaginario I
* 1967 – Módulos III
* 1967 – Imaginario II
* 1967 – Módulos V
* 1968 – Protocolo
* 1968 – Paráfrasis
* 1969 – Cuatro Invenciones
* 1969 – Quasi une fantasia
* 1969 – Por diversos motivos

=== Chamber music ===
* Anatomías for viola solo, 2 clarinets, horn, trombone and harp (2005–2007)
* Ex voto for violin and viola (1995)
* Monólogo for viola solo (1990–1992)

=== Choral music ===
* Yo Lo Vi for 12 voices (1970)
* Passio

=== Orchestral music ===
* Las Orillas (1990)

=== Operas ===
* Kiu (1983) (Anon. n.d.)
* El viajero indiscreto (1990)
* La señorita Cristina (2000)

=== Film music ===
* El jardín de las delicias (Carlos Saura, 1970)
* El Espíritu de la Colmena (Victor Erice, 1973)

=== Discography ===
* Libro de imágenes, Segunda Lectura, Metáforas. Stradivarius
* Senderos del aire and works for flute. Col Legno
* Dibujos, Fragments from Kiu, Chamber Concerto etc. ADDA
* Tarde de Poetas. Harmonia Mundi
* Piano Trio. Ermitage ERM 413
* Visto de Cerca, para 3 músicos y cinta; Chaman, obra electronica. Hispavox LP (30) 130 202
* Al Son que Tocan, Homenaje an Antonio Machado. RCA LP SRL2-2444

== Written works ==
* Aproximación a una estética de la música contemporánea, 1968
* Lo que sabemos de música, 1968

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