Enric Morera i Viura
Enric Morera i Viura was a Catalan musician and composer from Spain.
Career
Morera was born in Barcelona but moved with his father, a musician, to Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1867, studying organ, trumpet, and violin there. He returned in 1883 to Barcelona, studying with Isaac Albéniz and Felip Pedrell. Later he lived for two years in Brussels before returning to Argentina. He finally returned to Barcelona in 1890 where he was prominent in the movement Catalan Musical Modernism, with for example the opera La fada in 1897. He founded the choir "Catalunya Nova". He wrote books on musical theory such as a "Practical Treatise on Harmony".Among his students were Vicente Asencio, Agusti Grau, Manuel Infante, Xavier Montsalvatge and Carlos Surinach.
His music is generally strongly nationalist in character and forms part of the repertory of Catalan national compositions. He wrote more than 800 compositions, including songs, a requiem mass, lyric works, symphonic works, operas, symphonic poems, and sardanes for cobla.
Although he spent some time in Argentina and Belgium, Morera spent most of his life in Barcelona and died there in 1942.
The personal papers of Enric Morera are preserved in the Biblioteca [de Catalunya].
Selected compositions
Dansa del gnoms, 1893Introducció a l'Atlántida, symphonic poem, 1893Minuet per a quartet de corda, 1889Jesús de Nazareth, 1894La fada, opera, 1897L'alegria que passa, 1898Missa de rèquiem, 1899La nit de l'amor, 1901El comte Arnau, 1905Bruniselda, 1906Empòrium, opera, 1906Don Joan de Serrallonga, 1907La Santa Espina, patriotic song and sardana, 1907Cançons populars catalanes harmonitzades, 1910Titaina, opera, 1912Tassarba, opera, 1916- Concert per a violoncel i orquestra, 1917El poema de la nit i el dia i de la terra i de l'amor, symphonic poem, 1920Cançons de career, 1926La marieta de l'ullviu, 1926La cançó dels Catalans, 1930El castell dels tres dragons, 1931Dotze cançons del Llibre de la Pàtria, 1936