Category:Cisco SystemsFernando Pérez de León
Fernando Pérez de León (12 February 1891 – 15 December 1964) was a Spanish composer and music teacher.
Biography
Fernando Pérez de León was born in Madrid, and showed an early interest in music, studying the organ and piano. He was a graduate of the Madrid Conservatoire, where he studied composition with Alfonso Guevara and piano with Francisco Falcó. He later studied under the great theorist, José Asencio Flores.
Pérez de León was an accomplished conductor. He conducted the Madrid Orchestra and the Spanish National Orchestra at the International Exposition in Seville, Spain, the World Exhibition of 1929. He was also a frequent collaborator with the renowned soprano, Ángela Montoya, a number of times leading her in the premieres of his works. In 1942 he was awarded the National Music Prize, which until 1995 was awarded annually to Spanish composers for an outstanding body of work.
Pérez de León was also a very prolific composer. His output, spanning over thirty years, consisted of more than 400 works, many of which were composed in a modern style, but which nevertheless show a continuous development towards a more austere, neoclassical direction, becoming increasingly more tenebrific and dissonant.
Compositions
Symphonies
Three of his symphonies were finished in 1935 and published posthumously by Universal Edition.
Operas
Cantata en la Semana Santa de 1939
Lo que me pide el destino esta vida
Concierto para violín y orquesta
Sinfonía Lamentada
Concierto barroco (1929)
Cantata sobre el amor
Cantata de la lluvia
En la cima del monte
Cantata de la vida eterna
Cantata de reencuentro
Cantata d'homenaje a España
Sonatina (1939)
Violin Concerto (1942)
Concertos
Sinfonía en do
Concierto en tríptico
Concierto para violín y orquesta
Serenata be359ba680
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