Manuel Blancafort, the composer, had to close his family's pianola-roll business due to new technologies and started a beauty products company, 'Perfumes Blancaflor', to support his family.
Compositional Technique
Hommage à Fauré, a work by Manuel Blancafort, imitates the French composer's style through continuous melodic discourse and a preference for enharmonic modulation.
Compositional Technique
Manuel Blancafort's Sardana simfònica and La verge de Palau Solitar are piano versions of the Sardana, a traditional Catalan dance usually performed by a cobla instrumental ensemble.
Historical Context
The Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and its aftermath radically changed Manuel Blancafort's life, forcing him to take jobs that left little time for composing.
Composer Biography
Manuel Blancafort dedicated his final piano project, Peces petites per a mans menudes, to his grandchildren, intending it to contain musical portraits of them and depict childhood.
Recording & Production
This album is the fifth and final volume of Manuel Blancafort's complete solo piano works, made possible by the composer's family providing unpublished scores to pianist Miquel Villalba.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Manuel Blancafort's move to the city after the war deprived him of his main source of inspiration: 'permanent contact with nature'.
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