Enric Morera i Viura

Enric Morera i Viura (; 22 May 1865 – 11 March 1942), was a Spanish musician and composer from Catalonia.

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 (The Fairy) 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 much forms part of the repertory of Catalan national compositions. He wrote more than 800 compositions. Included are 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.

Works
Representative works include

Dansa del gnoms, 1893
Introducció a l'Atlántida, symphonic poem, 1893
Minuet per a quartet de corda, 1889
Jesús de Nazareth, 1894
La Fada, opera, 1897
L'alegria que passa, 1898
Missa de rèquiem, 1899
La nit de l'amor, 1901
El comte Arnau, 1905
Bruniselda, 1906
Empòrium, Opera, 1906
Don Joan de Serrallonga,1907
La Santa Espina, patriotic song and sardana, 1907
Cançons populars catalanes harmonitzades, 1910
Titaina, Opera, 1912
Tassarba, Opera, 1916
Concert per a violoncel i orquestra, 1917
El poema de la Nit i el Dia i de la Terra i de l'Amor, symphonic poem, 1920
Cançons de career, 1926
La Marieta de l'ullviu, 1926
La cançó dels Catalans, 1930
El castell dels tres dragons,  1931
Dotze cançons del Llibre de la Pàtria, 1936

See also

Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu
Escola Municipal de Música
Sardana

Notes

Bibliography
 Aviñoa, Xosé. Morera. Barcelona: Nou Art Thor, DL 1985. (Gent Nostra; 37). 
 Morera, Enric. Moments viscuts (auto-biografia). Barcelona: Gráficas Barcelona, 1936. 
 Pena, Joaquim. Enric Morera : assaig biogràfic. Barcelona: Institució del Teatre, 1937. (Estudis (Institut del Teatre); 17). 
 Planes, Ramon. El mestre Morera i el seu món. Barcelona: Pòrtic, 1972. (Llibre de butxaca; 55). 
 Saperas, Miquel. El mestre Enric Morera. Andorra la Vella-Barcelona: Editorial Andorra, DL 1969. (Col·lecció Ahir-Demà; 4).

External links
Enric Morera i Viura: Biography and Works
PDF scores and mp3 music

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