Emili Salut Payà
Emili Salut i Payà was a Catalan trumpeter and composer.
Biography
Emili Salut i Payà was born in Barcelona.Emili Salut attended the Municipal School of Barcelona, where he studied violin with the teachers Sainz de la Maza and Costa and piano with Joseph Climent. But his passion was composition. Later, he took a great interest in the trumpet, so he started lessons with Lluís Rovira and became part of ensembles in the Avenue of Parallel until 1936, when the Spanish Civil War broke out.
In 1939, he went to the USSR, where he studied to become a pilot. Between 1940 and 1941, he was a musician of the Mijail Lipski Orchestra in Moscow. In 1941, when German troops entered Russian territories, he was locked up for eight years in prisons and concentration camps. When he was released in 1948, he continued with his music studies.
He married his first wife, Isida Filippova. They had two daughters, Francesca and Violeta.
In 1957 he was able to return to Spain and live in Madrid and Barcelona. He worked at the Radio Nacional de España and then as a teacher at the Assimil Academy.
Compositions
Chamber music
- Collection of six Cànons a 4 and 2 voices, Op. 8, for stringsGuerras civiles de Granada, Op. 13, for violin and pianoSolo de concierto, for voice, violin and piano
Voice and piano
Agraint un clavell Invierno, written in the concentration campRecuerdos, memories from the concentration campPiano
Canone, Op. 53 Elegie, Op. 36 Estudi núm. 1: Satànic Preludio, Op. 53 Recoup, Op. 35 Romanza Sonata núm. 1 12 Valsos per a piano, Op. 15Organ
Fugueta, d'introducció i comiat per a una cerimònia nupcial, Op. 25Choir
Canción Yalta, Op. 9, Russian textEl cargol, Op. 1''Cobla''
Els brivalls del barri, Op. 3, sardana for choir and cobla El cargol, Op. 3, for choir and coblaEn Pere Gallarí, Op. 3, for choir and coblaUn pont de cobre l'altre, Op. 3, for choir and coblaRemei, Op. 3, for choir and coblaLa vall, Op. 3, for choir and ''cobla''Orchestra
Introducció i comiat per a una cerimònia nupcial, Op. 25 Kalinka, Op. 48Retaule nadalench, Op. 39 Romanza, Op. 49 Rondó per al tema de Krasnii sarafan, Op. 47Santa Eulària, esbós poemàtich Suite amussette, Op. 35Suite Tártara núm. 3 Tonadilla y Copla, Op. 42, dedicated to Russian people. The location of this work is unknownBand
Retaule nadalench, Op. 39Ballet
El Circo, suite for symphony orchestraSuite lirique, Op. 11Werther, Op. 16Arrangements
Jota aragonesa, of Glimka, instrumentated for band Ave Maria, of Franz Schubert, instrumentated for soloist, choir and orchestraJazz
Abschor liedAufwiedersehenFoxbrush, foxtrot StormboundFoxtrotGlaspliter, intermezzoIch will das immer Frühling sein sollA little house on Michigan SeaMutter liebe- ''Sombrero cordobés''