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Roberto Gerhard
Person · male · Spain · Valls · born 1896 · died 1970 · recording since 1992
Catalan composer and musical scholar and writer (1896–1971)
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Also known as Robert Gerhard · R. Gerhard · Robert Gerhard · 罗伯托·格哈德
Timeline
27 events▣ Album 24◦ Birth 1† Death 1★ Debut release 1
1890s
1970s
1990s
· Debut release
Debut release: Don Quixote / Pedrelliana / Albada, interludi i dansa
First documented Album in the MusicBrainz discography.
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Album: L'alta naixença del rei en Jaume, Sis cançons populars catalanes, Cancionero de Pedrell & Dues sardanes
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2000s
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Album: Howard Ferguson: Concerto for Piano and String Orchestra / Roberto Gerhard: Concerto for Piano and Strings
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2010s
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Album: Electronic Explorations From His Studio + The BBC Radiophonic Workshop 1958-1967
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2020s
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Album: Don Quixote (complete ballet) / Suite from 'Alegrías' / Pedrelliana
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Biography
English biography1,481 words · 16 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1348004727
Biography
Robert Gerhard i Ottenwaelder (Catalan pronunciation: [ruˈβɛɾd ʒəˈɾaɾt]; 25 September 1896 – 5 January 1970) was a Spanish and British composer, musical scholar, and writer, generally known outside his native region of Catalonia as Roberto Gerhard.
Early life
Gerhard was born in Valls, near Tarragona, Spain. His father was of German and Swiss ancestry; his mother was from Alsace-Lorraine.
He studied piano with Enrique Granados and composition with scholar-composer Felip Pedrell, teacher of Isaac Albéniz, Granados and Manuel de Falla. Gerhard visited Falla in Granada, but dismissed him as a possible teacher and decided to shut himself away in a Catalan farmhouse to reflect on his professional future and concentrate on his work. Seeking systematicity, he turned his gaze to German avant-garde music and decided to send a long letter to the composer Arnold Schoenberg, enclosing his compositions, on 21 October 1923, begging to be accepted as his pupil.
After the latter's acceptance, Gerhard immediately left for Vienna. He was Schoenberg's only Spanish pupil. Gerhard studied with Schoenberg in Vienna and Berlin between 1923 and 1928, and the teacher-pupil relationship became a lifelong friendship, as is shown in the complete correspondence published between the two composers.
Career
In 1928, Gerhard returned to Barcelona. He devoted his energies to new music through concerts and journalism, in conjunction with the flourishing literary and artistic avant-garde of Catalonia. He befriended Joan Miró and Pablo Casals, brought Schoenberg and Anton Webern to Barcelona, and was the principal organizer of the 1936 ISCM Festival. He also collected, edited, and performed folksongs and Spanish music from the Renaissance to the eighteenth century.
Gerhard supported the Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War (as musical adviser to the Minister of Fine Arts in the Catalan Government and a member of the Republican government's Social Music Council). He was forced to flee to France in 1939 and later that year settled in Cambridge, England. Until the death of Francisco Franco, his music was virtually proscribed in Spain, to which he never returned except for holidays. Apart from scores for the BBC and in the theatre, Gerhard's compositions of the 1940s were explicitly related to aspects of Spanish and Catalan culture, beginning in 1940 with a Homenaje a Pedrell, a symphony in memory of Pedrell, and the first version of the ballet Don Quixote. The period culminated with The Duenna, a Spanish opera on an English play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, which is set in Spain. The Covent Garden production of Don Quixote and the BBC broadcasts of The Duenna popularized Gerhard's reputation in the UK, but not in Spain.
During the 1950s, the legacy of Schoenbergian serialism, a background presence in these overtly national works, engendered an increasingly radical approach to composition which, by the 1960s, placed Gerhard firmly in the ranks of the avant-garde.
Death
From the early 1950s Gerhard suffered from a heart condition which would eventually end his life. He died in Cambridge in 1970 and is buried at the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge, with his wife Leopoldina 'Poldi' Feichtegger Gerhard (1903–1994).
His archive is kept at Cambridge University Library. Other personal papers of Gerhard are preserved in the Biblioteca de Catalunya. The vast majority of the correspondence between Gerhard and Arnold Schoenberg can be found at the Arnold Schönberg Center.
Stylistic evolution
For twenty years – first in Barcelona and then in exile in England – Gerhard cultivated and contributed to a modern tonal idiom with a pronounced Spanish-folkloric orientation that descended on the one hand from Pedrell and Falla, and on the other from contemporary composers such as Bartók and Stravinsky. This was the idiom whose major achievements included the ballets Soirées de Barcelone and Don Quixote, the Violin Concerto and the opera The Duenna.
Gerhard often said that he stood by the sound of his music: 'in music the sense is in the sound'. Yet dazzling as their scoring is, his last works are in no sense a mere succession of sonic events. Their forms are meticulously organized and several make use of his special development of serialism where a twelve-tone pitch series, governing intervallic relations, interacts with a twelvefold time series governing the music's duration and proportions.
Selected list of works
Gerhard's most significant works, apart from those already mentioned, include four symphonies (the Third, Collages, for orchestra and tape), the Concerto for Orchestra, concertos for violin, piano and harpsichord, the cantata The Plague (after Albert Camus), the ballets Pandora and Ariel, and pieces for a wide variety of chamber ensembles, including Sardanas for the indigenous Catalan street band, the cobla. He was perhaps the first important composer of electronic music in Britain; his incidental music for the 1955 Stratford-on-Avon King Lear – one of many such commissions for the Royal Shakespeare Company – was the first electronic score for the British stage.
Symphonies
Symphony Homenaje a Pedrell (1941)
Symphony No. 1 (1952–53)
Symphony No. 2 (1957–59); recomposition as Metamorphosis, unfinished (1967–68)
Symphony No. 3 Collages (for orchestra and tape) (1960)
Symphony No. 4 New York (1967)
Symphony No. 5 (fragment only) (1969)
(for Chamber Symphony Leo see "Chamber music")
Stage works
Ariel, ballet (1934)
Soirées de Barcelone, ballet in three tableaux (1937–39; edited and orchestration completed by Malcolm MacDonald, 1996)
Don Quixote, ballet (original version 1940–41, rev. 1947–49)
Alegrias, Divertissement flamenco (1942)
Pandora, ballet (1943–44, orch. 1944–45)
The Duenna, English opera after Sheridan (1947–49). Radio performance was in 1949, at BBC; its first scenic performance was in 1992 at Teatro de la Zarzuela, Madrid, and Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona. The Bielefeld Opera and conductor Geoffrey Moull performed The Duenna in a new production in 1994. The Wiener Zeitung at the time remarked that the work is "a rediscovered stroke of genius".
El barberillo de Lavapies, arrangement and orchestration of the zarzuela (1874) by Francisco Barbieri (1954)
Lamparilla, German-language Singspiel loosely based on El barberillo de Lavapies with additional music and original overture by Gerhard (1955–56)
Concertos
Concertino for string orchestra (1929)
Violin Concerto (1942–43)
Concerto for Piano and String Orchestra (1951)
Concerto for Harpsichord, String Orchestra and Percussion (1955–56)
Concerto for Orchestra (1965)
Orchestral works
Albada, Interludi i Dansa (1936)
Dances from Don Quixote (1940-41)
Pedrelliana (En memoria) (1941; revised 1954)
Epithalamion (1966)
Various suites from Soirées de Barcelone, Alegrias, Pandora
Chamber and instrumental music
Sonatine a Carlos, piano (1914)
Trio in B major for violin, cello and piano (1918)
Trio No. 2 for violin, cello and piano (1918)
Dos Apunts, piano (1921–22)
3 string quartets composed up to 1928 (all lost; No. 3 (1928) was reworked as the Concertino for strings)
Sonata, clarinet and piano (1928; also version for bass clarinet and piano)
Wind Quintet (1928, his first serial work)
Andantino, clarinet, violin and piano (period 1928–29)
String Quartet No. 1 (1950–55)
Sonata, viola and piano (1948; recomposed 1956 as sonata for cello and piano)
Capriccio, solo flute (1949)
3 Impromptus, piano (1950)
Secret People (study for the film score) for clarinet, violin and piano (1951–52)
Nonet (1956–57)
Fantasia, guitar (1957)
String Quartet No. 2 (1961–62)
Concert for 8 (1962)
Chaconne, violin solo (1959)
Hymnody for large wind ensemble, two pianos and percussion (1963)
For whom the bell tolls, for solo guitar (1965)
Gemini, Duo for violin and piano (1966)
Libra, sextet (1968)
Leo, Chamber Symphony (1969)
Vocal works
L'infantament meravellós de Shahrazada Song-cycle for voice and piano, Op. 1 (1916–18)
Verger de les galanies for voice and piano (1917–18)
7 Haiku for voice and ensemble (1922 rev. 1958)
14 Cançons populars catalanes for voice and piano (1928–29; six numbers orchestrated 1931 as 6 Cançons Populars Catalanes)
L'alta naixenca del Rei en Jaume, cantata for soprano, baritone, chorus and orchestra (1932)
Cancionero de Pedrell for voice and piano or chamber orchestra (1941)
3 Canciones Toreras for voice and orchestra (c. 1943) [composed under pseudonym "Juan Serralonga"]
6 Chansons populaires françaises for voice and piano (1944)
The Akond of Swat for voice and percussion (1954)
Cantares for voice and guitar (1962; incorporates Fantasia for guitar)
The Plague, cantata for narrator, chorus and orchestra, after Camus (1963–64)
Electronic music
Audiomobiles I-IV (1958–59)
Lament for the death of Bullfighter for speaker and tape (1959)
Caligula (1960–61)
10 Pieces for tape (c. 1961)
Sculptures I-V (1963)
DNA in Reflection (1963)
Anger of Achilles (1964) with Delia Derbyshire[1]
also tape component in Symphony No.3 and in many film, radio and theatre scores
Fantasias on themes from Zarzuelas
(for light orchestra; composed c. 1943 under the pseudonym "Juan Serralonga")
Cadiz, after Chuca & Valverde (1943)
Gigantes y Cabezudos, after Caballero (c. 1943)
La Viejecita, after Caballero (c. 1943)
Film music
Secret People (1952)
This Sporting Life (1963)
Articles and broadcasts by Gerhard
'Roberto Gerhard's Symphony': Radio Times, Oct 23, 1959, p. 9 (An introduction to the Second Symphony, which was commissioned by the BBC and first performed and broadcast on Oct 28, 1959. Gerhard also contributed an item on the work to 'Music Magazine' on the BBC Home Service, Oct 25, 1959.)
Gerhard worked with Lionel Salter on a radio series, The Heritage of Spain, broadcast on the BBC Third Programme in 26 parts from January 1954.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 18 | 78.1th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 24 | 88.5th |
| Studio albums | 24 | 97.3th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 27 | 96.1th |
| Recording span (years) | -22 | 8th |
| Genres | 5 | 88.3th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (24 release groups · 24 studio albums)
Albums · 24
Don Quixote / Pedrelliana / Albada, interludi i dansa
1992 · studio album
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Tracklist · 9 tracks · 1:04:44
1Don Quixote: Scène 17:282Don Quixote: Scène 29:133Don Quixote: Scène 310:504Don Quixote: Scène 43:455Don Quixote: Scène 510:342Pedrelliana11:577Albada, interludi i dansa: Albada4:263Albada, interludi i dansa: Interludi2:409Albada, interludi i dansa: Dansa3:51Cancionero de Pedrell / Pandora / Alegrías / Sept Haiku
1994 · studio album
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Tracklist · 22 tracks · 1:09:08
1Alegrías, suite: I. Preámbulo - Jácara4:122Alegrías, suite: II. Farruca y Jaleo8:533Cancionero de Pedrell: I. "Sa ximbamba" (Majorca)1:364Cancionero de Pedrell: II. "La mal maridada" (Catalonia)1:525Cancionero de Pedrell: III. "Laieta" (Catalonia)1:286Cancionero de Pedrell: IV. "Soledad" (Asturias)2:337Cancionero de Pedrell: V. "Muera yo..." (Asturias)1:348Cancionero de Pedrell: VI. "Farruquiña" (Galicia)3:179Cancionero de Pedrell: VII. "Alatá" (Galicia)2:4210Cancionero de Pedrell: VIII. "Corrandes" (Valencia)2:4711Sept Haiku: I. "Au milieu de la prairie verte"1:4912Sept Haiku: II. "J'ai caressé ta flottante"0:4113Sept Haiku: III. "Sous les lucioles"1:0714Sept Haiku: IV. "Douce voix"1:4415Sept Haiku: V. "Pensée"1:5116Sept Haiku: VI. "Sous la pluie d'été"1:2117Sept Haiku: VII. "Mais en exil"2:2718Pandora Suite: I. "The Quest"4:2519Pandora Suite: III. "Psyché and the Youth"7:0720Pandora Suite: IV. "Pandora's Carnival"2:3121Pandora Suite: V. "The Monsters' Drill"5:0222Pandora Suite: VI. "Death and the Mothers"8:09Symphonie no. 1 / Symphonie no. 3
1995 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 59:00
1Symphonie no. 1: I. Allegro animato11:092Symphonie no. 1: II. Adagio10:363Symphonie no. 1: III. Allegro spiritoso17:094Symphonie no. 3 "Collages": I. Allegro moderato1:535Symphonie no. 3 "Collages": II. Lento1:526Symphonie no. 3 "Collages": III. Allegro con brio4:317Symphonie no. 3 "Collages": IV. Moderato3:278Symphonie no. 3 "Collages": V. Vivace2:369Symphonie no. 3 "Collages": VI. Allegretto2:3210Symphonie no. 3 "Collages": VII. Calmo3:151996 · studio album
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Tracklist · 8 tracks · 1:04:13
0Pregap0:011Libra15:082Three Impromptus - I. Giochevole1:433Three Impromptus - II. Teneramente2:244Three Impromptus - III. Con Impeto2:055Concerto for 810:276Gemini12:417Leo19:441996 · studio album
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Tracklist · 7 tracks · 56:36
1Trío para violín, violonchelo y piano (1918): I. Modéré9:022Trío para violín, violonchelo y piano (1918): II. Très calme9:253Trío para violín, violonchelo y piano (1918): III. Vif8:034Sonata para violenchelo y piano (1956): I. Allegro molto enèrgico5:205Sonata para violenchelo y piano (1956): II. Grave5:216Sonata para violenchelo y piano (1956): III. Molto vivace4:157Gemini. Dúo concertante para violín y piano15:10Symphony no. 4 "New York" / Metamorphoses (Symphony no. 2)
1996 · studio album
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Tracklist · 20 tracks · 58:33
1Symphony no. 4 "New York": Andante3:322Symphony no. 4 "New York": Poco rallentando3:073Symphony no. 4 "New York": Molto vivace, con impeto0:504Symphony no. 4 "New York": Meno mosso2:585Symphony no. 4 "New York": Subito allegro1:256Symphony no. 4 "New York": Flessible0:587Symphony no. 4 "New York": Sans indication de mouvement1:108Symphony no. 4 "New York": Scherzo2:309Symphony no. 4 "New York": Moderato3:0910Symphony no. 4 "New York": Deciso1:0611Symphony no. 4 "New York": Allegro con moto2:0112Symphony no. 4 "New York": Sans indication de mouvement2:0213Symphony no. 4 "New York": Sans indication de mouvement1:3614Metamorphoses (Symphony no. 2): Poco sostenuto4:3015Metamorphoses (Symphony no. 2): Allegro assai5:2016Metamorphoses (Symphony no. 2): Poco più animato3:2217Metamorphoses (Symphony no. 2): Lento7:4418Metamorphoses (Symphony no. 2): Comodamente5:0919Metamorphoses (Symphony no. 2): Molto vivace2:5220Metamorphoses (Symphony no. 2): Sans indication de mouvement3:121996 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 1:08:29
1The Plague: 1. "Oran"3:372The Plague: 2. "Déclaration de l'épidemie"2:093The Plague: 3. "Choc sur la population"11:084The Plague: 4. "Le Comité de Santé"2:355The Plague: 5. "La fermeture des portes de la ville"6:186The Plague: 6. "La mort de la Jeune Fille"4:247The Plague: 7. "Les enterrements"2:318The Plague: 8. "L'Agonie de l'enfant"6:569The Plague: 9. "La fin soudaine de l'épidemie"6:4410Epithalamion22:071997 · studio album
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Tracklist · 21 tracks · 1:04:15
1L'Alta Naixença del Rei En Jaume: I. Introducció3:332L'Alta Naixença del Rei En Jaume: II. Divino3:473L'Alta Naixença del Rei En Jaume: III. Follia2:384L'Alta Naixença del Rei En Jaume: IV. Passacaglia3:465L'Alta Naixença del Rei En Jaume: V. Coral4:276Sis Cançons Populars Catalanes: I. La calàndria3:427Sis Cançons Populars Catalanes: II. La mort i la donzella1:588Sis Cançons Populars Catalanes: III. El petit vailet1:489Sis Cançons Populars Catalanes: IV. El cotiló3:5910Sis Cançons Populars Catalanes: V. Enemic de les dones1:2211Sis Cançons Populars Catalanes: VI. Els ballaires dins un sac0:5312Cancionero de Pedrell: I. Sa ximbomba1:3613Cancionero de Pedrell: II. La mal maridada2:1514Cancionero de Pedrell: III. Laieta1:4315Cancionero de Pedrell: IV. Soledad3:1416Cancionero de Pedrell: V. Muera yo1:3417Cancionero de Pedrell: VI. Farruquiño2:5718Cancionero de Pedrell: VII. Alalá3:0719Cancionero de Pedrell: VIII. Corrandes2:3620Sardana I6:4021Sardana II6:40Pandora / Soirées de Barcelone / Ariel
1997 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 1:11:21
1Pandora: 1. The Quest4:402Pandora: 2. Psyche and the Youth8:063Pandora: 3. Pandora's Carnival2:364Pandora: 4. The Monster's Drill5:355Pandora: 5. Death and the Mothers8:436Soirées de Barcelone: 1. La Foule - Cortège - Dance des Nains3:357Soirées de Barcelone: 2. Dansa dels "Majorales"4:578Soirées de Barcelone: 3. Les Couples et les Vieux4:049Soirées de Barcelone: 4. Dansa dels "Fallaires"4:4510Ariel: 1. Allegro Molto4:1211Ariel: 2. Adagio10:4012Ariel: 3. Tempo Guisto9:28Symphony no. 3 "Collages" / Epithalamion / Piano Concerto
1997 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 1:05:10
1Symphony no. 3 "Collages": I. Allegro moderato2:002Symphony no. 3 "Collages": II. Lento1:583Symphony no. 3 "Collages": III. Allegro con brio4:034Symphony no. 3 "Collages": IV. Moderato3:235Symphony no. 3 "Collages": V. Vivace2:306Symphony no. 3 "Collages": VI. Allegretto3:007Symphony no. 3 "Collages": VII. Calmo2:498Concerto for piano & strings: I. Tiento: Allegro7:249Concerto for piano & strings: II. Diferencias: Adagio11:2510Concerto for piano & strings: III. Folia: Molto mosso6:1411Epithalamion20:24Symphony no. 1 / Violin Concerto
1998 · studio album
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Tracklist · 6 tracks · 1:15:38
1Violin Concerto: I. Allegro cantabile, con anima15:392Violin Concerto: II. Largo -12:003Violin Concerto: III. Allegro con brio8:484Symphony no. 1: I. Allegro animato11:195Symphony no. 1: II. Adagio11:076Symphony no. 1: III. Allegro spiritoso16:45Symphony "Homenaje a Pedrell" / Harpsichord Concerto
1998 · studio album
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Tracklist · 6 tracks · 57:50
1Symphony "Homenade e Pedrell": I. Allegro (moderatamente)12:382Symphony "Homenade e Pedrell": II. Andante (un poco adagio)11:323Symphony "Homenade e Pedrell": III. Pedrelliana: Allegretto giusto11:204Concerto for Harpsichord Strings and Percussion: I. Allegro maestoso6:345Concerto for Harpsichord Strings and Percussion: II. Largo7:546Concerto for Harpsichord Strings and Percussion: III. Vivace spiritoso7:52Concerto for Orchestra / Symphony no. 2
1999 · studio album
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Tracklist · 3 tracks · 54:41
1Concerto for Orchestra23:382Symphony no. 2: Poco sostenuto - Allegro assai13:163Symphony no. 2: Lento - Comodamente - Molto vivace17:471999 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 37:56
1String Quartet no. 1: I. Allegro assai7:102String Quartet no. 1: II. Con vivacita2:353String Quartet no. 1: III. Grave5:244String Quartet no. 1: IV. Molto allegro8:345String Quartet no. 2: I. Lento1:566String Quartet no. 2: II.1:267String Quartet no. 2: III.1:338String Quartet no. 2: IV.0:309String Quartet no. 2: V.4:2810String Quartet no. 2: VI.2:2211String Quartet no. 2: VII.1:58Symphony no. 4 "New York" / Pandora Suite
1999 · studio album
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Tracklist · 6 tracks · 53:38
1Symphony no. 4 "New York"26:552Pandora Suite: I. The Quest4:243Pandora Suite: II. Psyche and the Youth7:304Pandora Suite: III. Pandora's Carnival2:265Pandora Suite: IV. The Monster's Drill4:416Pandora Suite: V. Death and the Mothers7:422003 · studio album
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Tracklist · 6 tracks · 54:18
1Nonet: Introduction4:042Nonet: Allegro3:233Nonet: Andante6:384Nonet: Allegro Assai, Con Slancio4:255Hymnody16:426Leo19:062005 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 1:18:08
1Concerto in D major for Piano, Strings and Percussion, op. 49: Allegro ritmico4:282Concerto in D major for Piano, Strings and Percussion, op. 49: Andante naif3:113Concerto in D major for Piano, Strings and Percussion, op. 49: Allegro alla Burlesco7:384Concertino in C major for Piano and String Orchestra: Allegro molto moderato6:105Concertino in C major for Piano and String Orchestra: Andante5:496Concertino in C major for Piano and String Orchestra: Presto con disinvoltura4:357Concerto for Piano and Strings: Tiento: Allegro6:088Concerto for Piano and Strings: Diferencias: Adagio10:069Concerto for Piano and Strings: Folia: Molto mosso6:0110Concerto for Piano and String Orchestra, op. 12: Allegro10:2911Concerto for Piano and String Orchestra, op. 12: Theme and Variations: (Mesto — L'istesso tempo — Più mosso — Allegro — Misterioso — Tempo 1 — Solenne)6:5212Concerto for Piano and String Orchestra, op. 12: Allegro gioviale6:412006 · studio album
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Tracklist · 9 tracks · 43:58
1The Plague: Oran! Town Without Any Trees Or Gardens (Chorus)3:412The Plague: They're Coming Out, Good And Proper (Chorus) ... Next Morning, On my Round Of Visits (Narrator)2:163The Plague: On The Fourth Day ... (Narrator)11:154The Plague: By Dint Of A Persistence (Narrator)2:025The Plague: "So They Got Alarmed, At Last" (Narrator)5:336The Plague: The Mother Greeted Me (Narrator)3:577The Plague: During All That Summer (Narrator)2:378The Plague: The Boy Had Been Put In A Small Ward (Narrator)6:229The Plague: They're Coming Out Again! The Rats! (Chorus) ... The Official Communiques (Narrator)6:15Symphony no. 4 "New York" / Violin Concerto
2008 · studio album
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Tracklist · 4 tracks · 1:00:07
1Symphony no. 4 "New York"26:042Violin Concerto: I. Allegro cantabile, con anima — Molto vivace, con spirito13:403Violin Concerto: II. Largo — Allegretto placido11:184Violin Concerto: III. Allegro con brio — Presto9:052012 · studio album
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Tracklist · 9 tracks · 53:20
1Piano Trio No. 1: I. Modéré8:572Piano Trio No. 1: II. Très calme8:373Piano Trio No. 1: III. Vif7:014Piano Trio: I. Balada a Dulcinea4:165Piano Trio: II. Diálogo con Mompou4:206Piano Trio: III. Ritornello3:437Piano Trio in C major: I. Allegro risoluto7:108Piano Trio in C major: II. Tempo moderato e pesante - Allegro giusto4:519Piano Trio in C major: III. Recitativo. Moderato ed appassionato4:25Complete String Quartets, Chaconne
2013 · studio album
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Tracklist · 23 tracks · 54:31
1String Quartet No. 2: Movement 11:332String Quartet No. 2: Movement 21:333String Quartet No. 2: Movement 31:394String Quartet No. 2: Movement 40:325String Quartet No. 2: Movement 53:446String Quartet No. 2: Movement 62:247String Quartet No. 2: Movement 72:118String Quartet No. 1: Allegro assai7:189String Quartet No. 1: Con vivacità2:0810String Quartet No. 1: Grave4:4611String Quartet No. 1: Molto allegro7:5712Chaconne for solo violin: Movement 11:2113Chaconne for solo violin: Movement 21:0514Chaconne for solo violin: Movement 30:4115Chaconne for solo violin: Movement 41:1216Chaconne for solo violin: Movement 51:0217Chaconne for solo violin: Movement 62:0018Chaconne for solo violin: Movement 71:5019Chaconne for solo violin: Movement 82:4120Chaconne for solo violin: Movement 91:2321Chaconne for solo violin: Movement 102:2122Chaconne for solo violin: Movement 111:2623Chaconne for solo violin: Movement 121:44Electronic Explorations From His Studio + The BBC Radiophonic Workshop 1958-1967
2014 · studio album
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Tracklist · 6 tracks · 38:18
1Audiomobile “In the Manner of Goya”1:592Audiomobiles I “Sculpture”5:533Audiomobiles II “DNA in Reflection”8:034Audiomobiles III “Sculpture”4:515Caligula4:436Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter12:492021 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 46:42
1La noche de San Juan, Cuadro I: I. La multitud - Procesión - Danza de los enanos - Melé. la multitud baila con los enanos3:522La noche de San Juan, Cuadro I: II. Danza de las majorales2:453La noche de San Juan, Cuadro I: III. Los portadores de antorchas - Danza del vencedor2:354La noche de San Juan, Cuadro I: IV. Galantería0:515La noche de San Juan, Cuadro I: V. Danza de los fallaires4:456La noche de San Juan, Cuadro II: I. Nocturno - Danza de la seducción - Aparición de Eros7:167La noche de San Juan, Cuadro II: II. Danza de los espíritus - Las ninfas - Los duendes3:208La noche de San Juan, Cuadro II: III. Los ancianos con los faroles - Las parejas y los ancianos4:019La noche de San Juan, Cuadro III: I. Fandanguillo de los recién casados7:2110La noche de San Juan, Cuadro III: II. Sardana6:1911La noche de San Juan, Cuadro III: III. Coda3:37Don Quixote (complete ballet) / Suite from 'Alegrías' / Pedrelliana
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Tracklist · 25 tracks · 1:01:12
1Alegrías: Ia. Preámbulo2:102Alegrías: Ib. Jácara2:203Alegrías: IIa. Farruca5:074Alegrías: IIb. Jaleo3:055Pedrelliana11:316Don Quixote: Andante maestoso0:307Don Quixote, Scene 1 "Don Quixote's Room": Andante maestoso0:538Don Quixote, Scene 1 "Don Quixote's Room": Don Quixote's Vision of Dulcinea3:049Don Quixote, Scene 1 "Don Quixote's Room": Sancho Panza0:5510Don Quixote: Interlude I "The Plain of La Mancha"0:5211Don Quixote, Scene 2 "A Wayside Inn": Allegretto giocoso3:0112Don Quixote, Scene 2 "A Wayside Inn": The Vigil at Arms1:3113Don Quixote, Scene 2 "A Wayside Inn": The Duel with the Muleteer1:3114Don Quixote, Scene 2 "A Wayside Inn": The Knighting of Don Quixote0:5915Don Quixote: Interlude II1:1216Don Quixote, Scene 3 "The Plain of La Mancha": The Windmills1:2917Don Quixote, Scene 3 "The Plain of La Mancha": The Village Barber and His Basin2:1318Don Quixote, Scene 3 "The Plain of La Mancha": The Golden Age2:4419Don Quixote, Scene 3 "The Plain of La Mancha": The Galley-Slaves2:2220Don Quixote: Interlude III0:5621Don Quixote, Scene 4 "The Cave of Montesinos": Allegro moderato3:0922Don Quixote: Interlude IV0:3323Don Quixote, Scene 5: The Prison3:2324Don Quixote, Scene 5: Dulcinea Revealed as Aldonza2:1025Don Quixote: Epilogue3:32
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Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Roberto Gerhard head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 18 | 78.1th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 24 | 88.5th |
| Studio albums | 24 | 97.3th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 27 | 96.1th |
| Recording span (years) | -22 | 8th |
| Genres | 5 | 88.3th |
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Wikidata: Q713949 · MusicBrainz: 99ac9dd1-4c4a-4869-bd1e-d53fa883d807
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