Roberto Gerhard
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Composition list
Instrumental music
Opera and lyrical music
Chamber music
Symphonic music
Vocal music
Concertante music
Compositions sorted on opus (if available)
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Op. 1
Sheet music for Roberto Gerhard
Berthold Goldschmidt: Suite op. 5 / Roberto Gerhard: Concertino op. 12 / Kurt Weill: Symphony No. 2 — Roberto Gerhard
— CD —
Composed by Roberto Gerhard (1896-1970), Kurt Weill (1900-1950), and Berthold Goldschmidt. Recording mediums. CD. Duration 64' 22''. MDS (Music Distribution Services) #EDA 18. Published by MDS (Music Distribution Services) (M7.EDA-18).
Price: $25.00
Various authors: Preludi del novecento, Roberto Russo piano — Roberto Russo
— CD — Classical
By Roberto Russo. By Roberto Russo, Claude Debussy (1862-1918), George Gershwin (1898-1937), Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987), Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), and Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983). Classical. CD. Naxos #IIIMIL 0151. Published by Naxos (NX.IIIMIL-0151).
Price: $17.00
Milonga Blue - milonga in classical guitar. — Roberto Pugliese
Guitar — Individual Part — 21st Century,South American
Composed by Roberto Pugliese. Arranged by Roberto Pugliese. 21st Century, South American. Individual Part. 13 pages. Published by Roberto Pugliese (S0.576107).
Price: $15.00
Donizetti: L'Elisir D'Amore — Angela Gheorghiu, Roberto Alagna, Roberto Scaltriti
— listening CD (2 discs) —
By Angela Gheorghiu, Roberto Alagna, Roberto Scaltriti. By Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848). Listening CD (2 discs). Published by Decca (NX.B001650702).
Price: $20.00
Dances from Don Quixote — Roberto Gerhard
Orchestra — — Classical, Contemporary
Composed by Roberto Gerhard (1896-1970). Boosey & Hawkes Scores/Books. Classical, Contemporary. 79 pages. Boosey & Hawkes #M060030772. Published by Boosey & Hawkes (HL.48009756).
Price: $60.00
Concerto for Piano and Strings — Roberto Gerhard
Piano, Strings — — Classical, Concerto, Contemporary
Composed by Roberto Gerhard (1896-1970). Boosey & Hawkes Scores/Books. Classical, Concerto, Contemporary. 32 pages. Boosey & Hawkes #M060090233. Published by Boosey & Hawkes (HL.48011341).
Price: $27.00
Don Quixote (1950) — Roberto Gerhard
Orchestra — — Classical, Contemporary
Study Score. Composed by Roberto Gerhard (1896-1970). Boosey & Hawkes Scores/Books. Classical, Contemporary. 150 pages. Boosey & Hawkes #M060079351. Published by Boosey & Hawkes (HL.48011033).
Price: $67.00
6 Catalan Folksongs Voc/kybd — Roberto Gerhard
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Composed by Roberto Gerhard (1896-1970). Boosey & Hawkes Voice. 16 pages. Boosey & Hawkes #M060030826. Published by Boosey & Hawkes (HL.48009760).
Price: $20.00
Albada, Interludi i Dansa — Roberto Gerhard
Orchestra — — Classical, Contemporary
Study Score. Composed by Roberto Gerhard (1896-1970). Boosey & Hawkes Scores/Books. Classical, Contemporary. 62 pages. Boosey & Hawkes #M060030741. Published by Boosey & Hawkes (HL.48009754).
Price: $30.00
Symphony No. 1 — Roberto Gerhard
Orchestra — — Classical, Contemporary
Study Score. Composed by Roberto Gerhard (1896-1970). Boosey & Hawkes Scores/Books. Classical, Contemporary. 188 pages. Boosey & Hawkes #M060090240. Published by Boosey & Hawkes (HL.48011342).
Price: $66.00
List of Works (selected)
Opera
- The Duenna (1945-7), opera in 3 acts after Sheridan
Ballets
- Ariel, ballet in one act (1934)
- Soirees de Barcelone, ballet in 3 tableaux (1936-39; unfinished; performing version edited with completion of orchestration by Malcolm MacDonald, 1995-96)
- Don Quixote, ballet in one act (two versions, 1940-41 & 1947-49)
- Alegrias - Divertissement flamenco (1942)
- Pandora, ballet in one act (1943-44)
Other orchestral
- Concertino for string orchestra (1927-28)
- 2 Sardanas (1928)
- Albada, Interludi i Danza (1936)
- Symphony ‘Homenaje a Pedrell’ on themes from Pedrell’s ‘La Celestina’ (1941 - also Pedrelliana, version of finale from the Symphony as indepoendent work)
- Violin Concerto (1942-43)
- Concerto for piano and strings (1951)
- Symphony No.1 (1952-3)
- Harpsichord Concerto (1955-56)
- Symphony No.2 (1957-59; recomposed 1967-68 as Metamorphoses, unfinished)
- Symphony No.3 ‘Collages’ with electronic tape (1960)
- Concerto for Orchestra (1964)
- Epithalamion (1966)
- Symphony No.4 ‘New York’(1967)
Choral and vocal works
- L’Infantament meravellos de Scherazada (1917-18)
- 7 Haiku for high voice and chamber ensemble (1922 rev. 1958)
- 6 Catalan Folksongs for high voice and piano or orchestra (1928 - the published numbers of a set of 14)
- Cantata, L’Alta Naixenca del Rei en Jaume (1932)
- Cancionero de Pedrell for high voice and piano or chamber ensemble (1941)
- 3 Canciones Toreras for medium voice and orchestra (ca. 1943)
- Cantares, seven Spanish songs for voice and guitar (1957)
- The Plague, oratorio after Camus (1963)
Chamber music
- Piano Trio (1918)
- Wind Quintet (1928)
- String Quartet No.1 (1955-56; at least three earlier quartets are lost)
- Nonet (1956-57)
- Concert for Eight
- Hymnody
- Gemini, duo for violin and piano (1966)
- Libra, sextet (1968)
- Leo, chamber symphony (1969)
Solo instrumental
- Dos Apunts for piano (1920)
- Dances from Don Quixote for piano (1947)
- 3 Impromptus for piano (1950)
- Capriccio for solo flute (1949)
- Fantasia for guitar (1957)
- Chaconne for solo violin (1959)
Also, many arrangements of Zarzuela material; incidental music for stage,
television and film, some including electronic music; some independent
electronic compositions including ‘Lament on the Death of a Bullfighter’ after Lorca.
Gerhard was born Robert Gerhard Ottenwaelder; his father was German-Swiss and
his mother Alsatian, but he identified closely with the national traditions of
Catalonia where he was born, balancing this against a profoundly international
outlook. He studied piano with Granados and composition with Pedrell. After
Pedrell’s death he sought to study with Falla, but was rebuffed - instead he
became a pupil of Schoenberg in Vienna and Berlin. Returning to Barcelona in
the late 1920s he campaigned for contemporary music and was principally responsible for organizing the 1936 ISCM Festival in
Barcelona, where Berg’s Violin Concerto was premiered. He also invited
Schoenberg to Barcelona, and it was while staying with Gerhard and his wife
that Schoenberg composed the bulk of ‘Moses und Aron’.
During the Spanish Civil War Gerhard was identified with the Republican
Government, of which his brother was a member. Shortly before the fall of
Barcelona to Franco’s troops in 1939 he fled to Paris and then to England,
where he was able to settle in Cambridge. He held no post at the University,
however. During and after the war he supported himself principally by ballet,
theatre and radio work, arranging and a little private teaching. From the early
1950s he began to experiment with electronic music. The successful premiere
of the First Symphony at the 1955 ISCM Festival in
Baden-Baden launched a late international celebrity; Gerhard was encouraged by
William Glock, who became Controller of BBC Music, so in the last decade of his
life Gerhard enjoyed many performances and critical acclaim while his music
became steadily more radical.