Gerónimo Giménez y Bellido (October 10, 1854, Seville – February 19, 1923, Madrid) was a Spanish conductor and composer, who dedicated his career to writing zarzuelas, such as La tempranica and La boda de Luis Alonso. Events 680 - Battle of Karbala: Shia Imam Husayn bin Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, is decapitated Year 1854 ( MDCCCLIV) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common year Seville ( Spanish: Sevilla, see also different names) is the artistic cultural and financial capital of southern Spain. Events 197 - Roman Emperor Septimius Severus defeats usurper Clodius Albinus in the Battle of Lugdunum Year 1923 ( MCMXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Madrid (pronounced in English in Spanish and colloquially in Spain) is the Capital and largest city of Spain. Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Conducting is the act of directing a Musical performance by way of visible gestures A composer (literally meaning 'one who puts together' is a person who creates Music, usually in the medium of notation, for Interpretation and Performance Zarzuela (θarˈθwela in Spain in Latin America is a Spanish lyric-dramatic genre that alternates between spoken and sung scenes the latter incorporating Operatic He preferred to spell his first name with a "G", even though it began officially with a "J".
Although the details of his early years are not entirely certain, Giménez was probably born in Seville and spent his childhood and adolescence in Cádiz. Cádiz ( Spanish:) is a city and port in southwestern Spain. It is the capital of the province of the same name, a province which is one of eight [1] A child prodigy, he began music lessons with his father and continued his education with Salvador Viniegra. List of child prodigies|Fictional child prodigies A child prodigy is a one who masters one or more skills or arts at an early age By the age of 12, he was already playing among the first violins of the Teatro Principal orchestra in Cádiz. Five years later, he became the director of an opera and zarzuela company, making his debut in Gibraltar with a production of Giovanni Pacini's Safo. Opera is an art form in which Singers and Musicians perform a Dramatic work (called an opera which combines a text (called a Libretto Gibraltar (dʒɨˈbrɒltər is a British overseas territory located near the southernmost tip of the Iberian Peninsula overlooking the Strait of Gibraltar Giovanni Pacini ( February 2, 1796. – December 6, 1867) was an Italian Composer, best known for his Operas
A scholarship permitted Giménez to enrol at the Conservatoire de Paris in June 1874, where he studied violin with Jean-Delphin Alard and composition with Ambroise Thomas. The Conservatoire de Paris is an institution of higher education that has played an important role in the development of Music in France and Western Europe The violin is a bowed String instrument with four strings usually tuned in Perfect fifths It is the smallest and highest-pitched member Jean-Delphin Alard ( May 8, 1815 &ndash February 22, 1888) was a French Violinist. Musical composition is an original piece of Music the structure of a musical piece the process of creating a new (Charles Louis Ambroise Thomas ( Metz August 5, 1811 - Paris, February 12, 1896) was a French Opera He received the first prize for harmony and counterpoint. In Western music, harmony is the use of different pitches simultaneously and chords actual or implied in Music. In Music, counterpoint is the relationship between two or more voices that are independent in contour and Rhythm, and interdependent in Harmony After graduation, he traveled to Italy and then returned to Spain, settling in Madrid. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest In 1885, he was named director of Teatro Apolo de Madrid, and shortly afterwards, of the Teatro de la Zarzuela.
Ruperto Chapí commissioned him to write the openings to his zarzuelas El Milagro de la Virgen and La bruja. Ruperto Chapí ( March 27 1851 – March 25 1909) was a Spanish composer of Zarzuelas and one Opera, As a conductor of the Sociedad de Conciertos de Madrid, Giménez helped cultivate the tastes of audiences in Madrid for symphonic music. The Sociedad de Conciertos de Madrid ( English: Society of Concerts of Madrid) was the first permanent symphony Orchestra in Spain. According to "those who have seem him conduct [and] have transmitted to us the memory of his performances of great strength and great enthusiasm […] he obtained with imperceptible gestures what he wanted from the orchestra. "[2]
A prolific composer, Giménez also collaborated with the leading authors of sainetes (a comic genre found in Spanish theatre), including Ricardo de la Vega, Carlos Arniches, the brothers Serafín and Joaquín Álvarez Quintero, and Javier de Burgos, to obtain the libretti for his zarzuelas. Carlos Arniches (1866&ndash1943 was a Spanish playwright His work drawing on the traditions of the Género chico, the Zarzuela and the Grotesque Serafín Álvarez Quintero ( March 26, 1871 – April 12, 1938) and Joaquín Álvarez Quintero ( January 20, 1873 Francisco Javier de Burgos y del Olmo ( October 22 1778, Motril &mdash January 22 1849, Madrid) was a Spanish A libretto is the text used in an extended Musical work such as an Opera, Operetta, Masque, sacred or secular Oratorio and He co-wrote the music of a number of his works with Amadeo Vives, who hailed him the "musician of elegance" because of his sense of rhythm and easy melodies. Amadeo Vives ( November 18, 1871 – December 1, 1932) was a Spanish musical composer creator of over a hundred stage works Rhythm (from Greek ῥυθμός - rhythmos, "any measured flow or movement symmetry" is the variation of the length and accentuation of In Music, a melody (from Greek μελῳδία - melōidía, "singing chanting" also tune, voice, or
In 1896, Giménez wrote El mundo comedia es, or El baile de Luis Alonso, based on a text by Javier de Burgos. Following the success of this piece, he set to music another sainete by Burgos with the same characters, which became one of his most famous works: Las bodas de Luis Alonso, or La noche del encierro (1897). This second work, which achieved much greater success than the first, was actually meant to be a prequel, not a sequel.
La tempranica was perhaps his most ambitious and successful work. Presented at the Teatro de la Zarzuela on September 19, 1900, it followed a text by Julian Romea. Giménez skillfully managed to combine moments of intense lyricism with scenes of colloquial explosion in a zarzuela which, according to Carlos Gómez Amat, "had all the qualities of the genre and none of the faults"[3]. The influence of Giménez is often noticeable in the compositions of subsequent Spanish composers, such as Joaquín Turina and Manuel de Falla (especially the stylistic correspondences between La tempranica and the latter's opera La vida breve). Joaquín Turina ( December 9, 1882 Seville – January 14, 1949 Madrid) was a Spanish Composer of Manuel de Falla y Matheu ( November 23, 1876 &ndash November 14, 1946) was a Spanish Composer of classical music Opera is an art form in which Singers and Musicians perform a Dramatic work (called an opera which combines a text (called a Libretto La vida breve ( Life is Short, also The Brief Life) is an Opera in two acts by Manuel de Falla to an original Spanish Libretto Federico Moreno Torroba adapted the celebrated zarzuela into an opera by setting the spoken parts to music. Federico Moreno Torroba (1891-1982 was a Spanish Composer, born in Madrid. In 1939, Joaquín Rodrigo also paid his respects with a Homenaje a la tempranica, which contained a solo part for castanets. Joaquín Rodrigo Vidre ( 22 November 1901 &ndash 6 July 1999) was a composer of classical music Castanets are Percussion instrument ( Idiophone) much used in Moorish, Ottoman, Ancient Roman, Italian, Spanish
Beyond dramatic works for the stage, Giménez also wrote three cadenzas to Beethoven's Violin Concerto. In Music, a cadenza (Italian for cadence) is generically an improvised or written-out ornamental passage played or sung by a soloist or soloists usually Ludwig van Beethoven ( English ˈlʊdvɪg væn ˈbeɪtoʊvən, 16 December 1770 &ndash 26 March 1827 was a German Composer and Pianist. Ludwig van Beethoven 's Violin Concerto in D major Op 61, was written in 1806.
Towards the end of his life, Giménez lived in a precarious economic situation, which was made worse by the Madrid Conservatory's refusal to grant him a professorship in chamber music. The Madrid Conservatory (Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid is a Music college in Madrid, Spain. Chamber music is a form of Classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber He died in poverty on February 19, 1923, in Madrid.
Notes and references
- ^ (Spanish) Claudo Prieto, La Tempranica, Mundoclassico. com, July 1, 2004
- ^ (Spanish) Carlos Gómez Amat, Historia de la Música Española. "July 1st" redirects here For the Ayumi Hamasaki song see H (song. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " Siglo XIX. Ed. Alianza Música. Madrid, 1984. ISBN 84-206-8505-4
- ^ (Spanish) Roger Alier, La Zarzuela. Ed. Robinbook, S. L. 2002. Barcelona. ISBN 84-95601-54-0
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