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Late Romantic Catalan

MALATS, Joaquín

Joaquín Malats, photographed by Pau Audouard Deglaire

Born in Barcelona, March 4, 1872
Died in Barcelona, c.1912

  • Malats was a concert pianist and teacher who studied in Paris, toured Europe and the Americas, but was based for most of his career in his hometown of Barcelona.
  • Malats was friends with Granados and Albéniz and appeared with each in two-piano duo concerts. Malats helped inspire Albéniz’s Iberia, and Malats played the Spanish premieres of all four parts of Iberia as they appeared.1

Sources

  1. Charles Hopkins, “Malats, Joaquín,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed November 13, 2019,  https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000042958.

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