Luis de Pablo Costales (28 January 1930 – 10 October 2021) was a Spanish composer belonging to the generation that Cristóbal Halffter named the Generación del 51. Mostly self-taught as a composer and influenced by Maurice Ohana and Max Deutsch, he co-founded ensembles for contemporary music, and organised concert series for it in Madrid. He published translations of notable texts about composers of the Second Viennese School, such as Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt's biography of Arnold Schoenberg and the publications of Anton Webern. He wrote music in many genres, including film scores such as Erice's The Spirit of the Beehive, and operas including La señorita Cristina. He taught composition not only in Spain, but also in the U.S. and Canada. Among his awards is the Premio Nacional de Música.
De Pablo and Cristóbal Halffter are regarded as key members of a group called Generación del 51, formed by young composers at the time they finished their studies, with a mission to connect music in Spain to musical developments in Europe after the Civil War. De Pablo adapted atonalism, serialism, aleatory forms, use of electronics and graphic notation. In 1958, he co-founded the group Grupo Nueva Musica, and in 1959, Tiempo y Musica.[4] He organised several contemporary music concert series, for example the Forum Musical and Bienal de Música Contemporánea de Madrid. He was particularly concerned with promoting appreciation in Spain of the Second Viennese School, publishing translations of Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt's biography of Arnold Schoenberg in 1961, and texts by Anton Webern in 1963.[1][2] In 1965, he founded the first studio for electronic music in Spain, with the group Alea.[5] He founded a festival, Rencontres de Pampelune, for music, theatre, film and the arts in 1972. He was accused of giving too much prominence to "left-wing art" by the Franco regime, but also of being a supporter of that regime by ETA. When one of the festival's patrons was kidnapped by ETA, the event was cancelled, and De Pablo went into exile in the U.S. and Canada, returning only after Franco's death.[1]
^Luis de Pablo: Tarde de Poetas – Josep Pons at AllMusic
^Woolf Peter Grahame: Luis de Pablo / Chamber Music / Trio musicweb-international.com October 2002
^Aproximación a una estética de la música contemporánea in: Los complementarios, Editorial Ciencia Nueva, 1968, ISBN
^Bibliografia de Luis de Pablo (in Spanish) cervantes.es 2015
Cited sourcesedit
Heine, Christine (2001). "Pablo (Costales), Luis de". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. London: Macmillan. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.20636. ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
Salas, Roger (8 February 2001). "Luis de Pablo define su cuarta ópera como una obra de grandes contrastes / 'La señorita Cristina', basada en una novela de Mircea Eliade, se estrena el sábado en el Real". El País. ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
Woolf, Peter Graheme (1999). "Luís de Pablo". musicweb-international.com. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
"Muere a los 91 años el compositor Luis de Pablo". abc.es (in Spanish). 11 October 2021. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
"Luis de Pablo Costales (1930) Obras estrenadas desde 1985". Centro de Documentación de Música y Danza (in Spanish). Instituto Nacional de las Artes Escénicas y de la Música / Secretaría de Estado de Cultura. 2017. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
"Instituto Nacional de las Artes Escénicas y de la Música / Secretaría de Estado de Cultura". Centre de documentation de la musique contemporaine. 2021. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
"Luis de Pablo (biography, works, resources)" (in French). IRCAM. 2021. Retrieved 8 July 2022.
"Luis de Pablo". spainisculture.com. Portal for the Promotion of Spanish Culture, Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport. 2021. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
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