Joan Abellan i Mula [SEP] occupation
Joan Abellan i Mula
Joan Abellan i Mula (born 1946 in Barcelona, Spain) is a Catalan playwright and essayist.
Abellan i Mula is a professor of theater arts at the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona (Barcelona Institute of Theater), and author of several plays. Additionally, Abellan i Mula has published numerous essays on the topic of theater arts. In 1989 he won the Prudenci Bertarna prize for the novel "La dona sense attributs" ("The woman without qualities"), written with J. Melendres
virtuoso " (Mercantil 7-VII-1892, Teatro Pizarro). He made his European début as a violinist in 1898, when he was hailed as a virtuoso of the first rank; he later made five world tours.
Almost entirely self-taught as a composer, Manén had begun to write at 13, and in 1900 he conducted a concert of his own works in Barcelona. It was in 1894 when his father, Joan Manén Abellan, believed that it was not enough that his son triumphed as a virtuoso of the violin