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El Pont de Montjüic; Serious Fox-Trot (septeto)

arreglo para septeto

Conjunto de cámara (Septeto)

MOMPOU, Frederic

Reg.: B.3749

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  • Arrangement: FERRER, Enric
  • Ensemble: Septets.
  • Genres: Classical / contemporary: Chamber.
  • Language of the comment: Spanish, Catalan, English
  • Product format: Partitura + particellas
  • Difficulty level: Advanced-superior
  • Period: 2nd half S. XX - XXI
  • Publishing house: Editorial Boileau
  • Collection: Siglo XX
  • No. of pages: 36+48
  • Measure: 31,00 x 23,00 cm
  • Lenght: 8'00"; 4'50"
  • ISMN: 979-0-3503-1982-2
  • Available in digital: No
  • Available for rent: No

Mompou originally wrote these works for the piano. They have been published by Editorial Boileau in volumes Piano 2 and Piano 3 of its collection of unpublished work (B.3634 and B.3635). The versions presented here have been arranged for septet formation by Enric Ferrer.

The Pont de Montjuïc [The Montjuïc Bridge]
Mompou wrote El Pont between 1941 and 1947, and dedicated it to his future wife, Carmen Bravo "with the faithful memory of our first walk", as we read in the dedication. It was to be the second piece in the collection of Paisatges [Landscapes], but the composer set it aside because he was not convinced by “its character, perhaps too melodic-romantic”, in the words of Mompou himself, who in those years, undecided, considered that type of music "an invalid vehicle of expression for our time". The second piece of Paisatges would end up being El llac [The lake], to which a third, Carros de Galicia, would be added in 1960. But in 1976, following a commission from the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science to honor Pau Casals on the centenary of his birth, Mompou returned to the piece and composed a new version for cello and piano (which, although he maintains the same main theme of the piano version, is developed in a completely different way). The original piano was forgotten and now we recover it here with the title of El pont de Montjuïc.

Serious Fox-trot
La Garriga (Vallès Oriental, Barcelona) is famous for its spas. The Blancafort family owned a spa and hotel there. La Ermita was the name that Mompou and Blancafort gave to a room that they had arranged to meet, with a piano and a few chairs, and where they could talk about music and their ideas. Mompou's brother, Josep (1888-1966), drew the sketch of the Hermitage that appears in all of Mompou's published scores.

In La Garriga, the Blancafort family also had a pianola roll factory. At that time the pianolas were a luxury product and any music could be transcribed on these scrolls. Mompou's dear friend Manuel Blancafort was an expert in transcribing music, thanks to the extensive experience he had gained working in the factory.

That factory became an excellent laboratory for Mompou and Blancafort to explore sounds and combinations: they could hear a melody forward, backward, fast, slow and in different tones. Mompou and Blancafort spent hours at the factory making numerous rolls of music that they then listened to in every possible way.

During the years 1916-1919 Mompou and Blancafort composed foxtrots and pasodobles for the clients of the spa and hotel and even arranged several of them for the orchestra that played at the Eden Concert cabaret. Chances are that Serious Fox-trot was written to be played in the salon of La Garriga Spa. It is dated "December 1, 1916." The manuscript is full of repetition signs, but in this edition we publish it so that it can be interpreted without going back.

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El pont de Montjuïc (8')
Serious Fox-trot (4'50")

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