Turina Joaquín Turina

Joaquín Turina Pérez (9 December 1882 – 14 January 1949) was a Spanish composer of classical music.

Biography

Turina was born in Seville. He studied in Seville as well as in Madrid. He lived in Paris from 1905 to 1914 where he took composition lessons from Vincent d'Indy at his Schola Cantorum de Paris and studied the piano under Moritz Moszkowski. Like his countryman and friend, Manuel de Falla, while there he got to know the impressionist composers Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy.

On 10 December 1908 he married Obdulia Garzón and together they had five children. She was the dedicatee of the Danzas fantásticas, which he completed in 1919.

Along with de Falla, he returned to Madrid in 1914, working as a composer, teacher and critic. On 28 March 1916, he joined the Madrid Symphony Orchestra at the Hotel Ritz in that city, to perform the premiere of Falla's revised orchestral version of El amor brujo. In the early months of 1929, he visited Havana, Cuba, where he gave a series of seven lectures at the Hispanic-Cuban Institute of Culture.

In 1931 he was made professor of composition at the Madrid Royal Conservatory. He died in Madrid. Among his notable pupils were Vicente Asencio and Celedonio Romero.

His works include the operas Margot (1914) and Jardín de oriente (1923), the Danzas fantásticas (1919, versions for piano and orchestra), La oración del torero (written first for a lute quartet, then string quartet, then string orchestra), chamber music, piano works, guitar pieces and songs. Much of his work shows the influence of traditional Andalusian music.^{[citation needed]} He also wrote a short one-movement Rapsodia Sinfonica (1931) for piano and orchestra. His music often conveys a feeling of rapture or exaltation. His guitar works include Fandanguillo and Hommage à Tárrega, which were written for Andrés Segovia. The dedicatee and/or first performer of a number of his piano works was José Cubiles.

Selected works

Stage works

• Margot Op. 11 (Gregorio Martínez Serra), comedia lírica, 3 acts (1914)
• Navidad Op. 16, incidental music for orchestra (1916)
• La adúltera penitente Op. 18a (G. Martínez Serra), drama, 3 acts (1917)
• Jardín de Oriente Op. 25, opera, 1 act (1923)

Vocal music

• Poema en forma de canciones Op. 19 (1917) for soprano and piano
• 3 Arias Op. 26 (1923) for voice and piano
• Canto a Sevilla Op. 37 (1927) for voice and orchestra
• Vocalizaciones Op. 74 (1932) for soprano and piano
• Ave Maria Op. 95 (1942) for soprano and piano

Orchestral works

• La procesión del Rocío Op. 9 (1912)
• Danzas fantásticas Op. 22 (1919)
• Sinfonía sevillana Op. 23 (1920)
• Rapsodia sinfónica Op. 66 (1931) for piano and string orchestra

Chamber music

• Piano Quintet Op. 1 (1907)
• String Quartet Op. 4 (1910)
• Scène andalouse (1913) for 2 violins, 2 violas, cello, piano
• El poema de una sanluqueña Op. 28 (1924) for violin and piano
• La oración del torero Op. 34 (1925) for 4 lutes, also for string quartet
• Piano Trio No. 1 Op. 35 (1926)
• Violin Sonata No. 1 Op. 51 (1929)
• Piano Quartet in A minor Op. 67 (1931)
• Piano Trio No. 2 Op. 76 (1933)
• Violin Sonata No. 2 (Sonata española) Op. 82 (1934)
• Círculo Op. 91 (1936) for piano trio

Guitar music

• Sevillana Op. 29 (1923)
• Fandanguillo Op. 36 (1925)
• Ráfaga Op. 53 (1929)
• Sonata Op. 61 (1931)
• Homenaje a Tárrega Op. 69 (1932)

Piano music

• Sevilla Op. 2 (1908)
• Sonata romántica Op. 3 (1909)
• Rincones sevillanos Op. 5 (1911)
• 3 Danzas andaluzas Op. 8 (1912)
• Recuerdos de mi rincón Op. 14 (1914)
• Mujeres españolas, Series 1 Op. 17 (1916)
• Cuentos de España, Series 1 Op. 20 (1918)
• Niñerías, Series 1 Op. 21 (1919)
• Danzas fantásticas Op. 22 (1919)
• Sanlúcar de Barrameda Op. 24 (1921)
• Jardines de Andalucía Op. 31 (1924)
• La venta de los gatos Op. 32 (1925)
• La leyenda de la Giralda Op. 40 (1926)
• 2 Danzas sobre temas populares españolas Op. 41 (1927)
• Mallorca Op. 44 (1928)
• Cuentos de España, Series 2 Op. 47 (1928)
• Recuerdos de la antigua España Op. 48 (1929)
• Miniaturas Op. 52 (1929)
• 5 Danzas gitanas, Series 1 Op. 55 (1930)
• Niñerías, Series 2 Op. 56 (1930)
• Partita in C major Op. 57 (1930)
• Tarjetas postales Op. 58 (1930)
• Sonata fantasía Op. 59 (1930)
• Radio Madrid Op. 62 (1931)
• Jardín de niños Op. 63 (1931)
• El Circo Op. 68 (1931)
• Silhouettes Op. 70 (1932)
• Mujeres españolas, Series 2 Op. 73 (1932)
• El poema infinito Op. 77 (1933)
• Bailete Op. 79 (1933)
• 5 Danzas gitanas, Series 2 Op. 84 (1934)
• Concierto sin orquesta Op. 88 (1935)
• Mujeres de Sevilla Op. 89 (1935)
• En el Cortijo Op. 92 (1940)
• Por las calles de Sevilla Op. 96 (c.1943)
• Rincón mágico Op. 97 (1943)