Pablo Sorozábal

Pablo Sorozábal

Pablo Sorozábal Mariezcurrena (September 18, 1897—December 26, 1988 [ [http://www.italianopera.org/compositori/S/c220705E.htm Pablo Sorozabal (Marialcurrena) ] ] ) was a Basque-Spanish composer.

Trained in San Sebastián, Madrid and Leipzig; then in Berlin, where he preferred Friedrich Koch as composition teacher to Arnold Schönberg, whose theories he disliked. It was in Germany that he made his conducting debut, and the rostrum remained at the centre of his working life. His Leipzig concert works include the choral "Suite vasca" (1923); "Dos apuntes Vascos" (1925) and "Symphonic Variations on a Basque Theme" (1927); of later works the funeral march "Gernika" for chorus and orchestra (1966) is outstanding. The "Siete Lieder", 1929 settings of Heinrich Heine for mezzo-soprano and orchestra, are perhaps the finest works he produced in Germany. Two short but powerful compositions for chorus and orchestra, "Maite" (‘Our Lady’, from the 1946 film "Jai-Alai") and "¡Ay, tierra vasca!" (1956) retain their place in the hearts of his Basque countrymen.

"Katiuska" (1931) was his stage debut, and the twenty or so zarzuelas which followed combine lyric fire and inimitable orchestration with an unfailing sense of theatre. Best-loved are his classic "madrileño" comedy "La del manojo de rosas" (1934) and the “nautical romance” set on the Atlantic Coast "La tabernera del puerto" of 1936.

Sorozábal’s liberal sympathies left him somewhat isolated after the Spanish Civil War, and many of his later zarzuelas were first seen outside the capital or in less prestigious Madrid theatres. They include the ambitious, allegorical romance "Black, el payaso" (1942), and the ski-sports musical "Don Manolito" (1943).

Sorozábal also wrote scores for non-musical films, notably the classic Spanish film Marcelino Pan y Vino (1955).

His tenure as director of the Madrid Symphony Orchestra ended abruptly in 1952 when he was refused permission to conduct Shostakovich’s Leningrad Symphony; and though his musical comedy "Las de Caín" was premiered at the "Teatro de la Zarzuela" in 1958, the opera "Juan José" still awaits performance after a production was suspended there during rehearsals in 1979. With his death in Madrid on 26 December 1988 the last chapter in the creative history of the romantic zarzuela came to an end. Sorozábal’s theatrical vitality and musical wit are second to none in the history of zarzuela.

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