Maria Teresa Pelegrí i Marimón facts for kids
Maria Teresa Pelegrí i Marimón (born March 4, 1907 – died March 18, 1996) was a talented Spanish composer. She was born in Barcelona, a big city in Spain. From a young age, she loved music and began studying the piano.
When she got married, Maria Teresa stopped her musical activities for about twenty years. But her passion for music never truly left her. After two decades, she decided to pick up her studies again. She took piano lessons with Joan Gibert and Carles Pellicer. She also learned about counterpoint and fugue (which are ways of combining different musical lines) from Josep Poch. For composition, which is the art of creating music, she studied with Josep Soler. She even took special classes on music from the 20th century with Carles Guinovart.
Maria Teresa Pelegrí's original music scores and other personal papers are kept safe at the Biblioteca de Catalunya, so people can study her work.
Musical Works
Maria Teresa Pelegrí wrote many different types of music. Here are some of her selected works:
- Praeludium und Tiento for organ (1975)
- Quatre chansons sentimentales: These are four emotional songs with words by famous poets like Charles Baudelaire and Paul Verlaine.
- Per a Viola i Piano (For Viola and Piano)
- Duetto for Cello and Piano
- First String Quartet (1974)
- Second String Quartet (1984)
- Third String Quartet
- Tocatta for nine instruments
- Passacaglia for Wind, bass, and percussion instruments
- Variations for orchestra
- Tragic poem for orchestra, which was inspired by the play La casa de Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca.
- Sinfonietta for woodwind and string orchestra
- Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
- Contrasts for Orchestra
- Two Songs for Mixed Choir: "Spring" and "Infant Joy", with words by William Blake (1976).
- Requiem for flute, cello, organ and choir: A requiem is a special piece of music often played to remember someone who has passed away.
- Herodes und Mariamne Opera in two acts (1984): An opera is a play where the story is told mostly through singing, accompanied by an orchestra. This one was based on a tragedy by Friedrich Hebbel.
