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 camp

Piano

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. 15

Organ

Fugueta, d'introducció i comiat per a una cerimònia nupcial, Op. 25

Choir

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 unknown

Band

Retaule nadalench, Op. 39

Ballet

El Circo, suite for symphony orchestraSuite lirique, Op. 11Werther, Op. 16

Arrangements

Jota aragonesa, of Glimka, instrumentated for band Ave Maria, of Franz Schubert, instrumentated for soloist, choir and orchestra

Jazz

Abschor liedAufwiedersehenFoxbrush, foxtrot StormboundFoxtrotGlaspliter, intermezzoIch will das immer Frühling sein sollA little house on Michigan SeaMutter liebe
  • ''Sombrero cordobés''

Jazz arrangements

Love is a many-splendored thing, of Sammy Fain, arranged for trumpetLa sombra de tu sonrisa, of J. Mandel i P. Webster, arranged for trumpetBlue Skies, arranged for piano