Cant de les estrelles
Choir - Sheet Music

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Piano, organ, chorus

SKU: BO.B.3436

Composed by Granados-Riva. Choral score and parts. Duration 15:00. Published by Editorial de Musica Boileau (BO.B.3436).

English comments:
On 11th March 1911, the great pianist and composer Enric Granados performed this piece as an absolute premiere at Barcelona's modernista concert hall Palau de la Musica Catalana. In spite of the great success achieved on the day of the premiere by this ambitious work for piano, organ and three choirs whose words in Catalan were provided by an unknown writer, the piece was never again performed or published. Its manuscript was assumed to be lost for decades and it was even thought that it might have been burnt in a fire. Finally, the pianist and Granados specialist Douglas Riva recovered it and offered it to Boileau Editorial de Musica for publication. El Cant de les estrelles was performed once again on 22nd March 2007, 96 years after its first performance, in New York's Ascension Church, with Douglas Riva himself at the piano and Dennis Keene conducting.

Comentarios del Espanol:
El 11 de marzo de 1911 el gran pianista y compositor Enric Granados interpreto esta obra, con caracter de estreno absoluto, en el modernista Palau de la Musica Catalana de Barcelona. Esta ambiciosa obra para piano, organo y tres coros, con texto en lengua catalana de autor desconocido, tuvo gran exito el dia de su estreno pero no se volvio a interpretar mas y tampoco fue editada. El manuscrito de El cant de les estrelles se dio por perdido durante decadas e incluso se penso que se habia quemado en un incendio. Finalmente, el especialista en Granados y pianista Douglas Riva lo recupero y ofrecio su edicion a Boileau Editorial de Musica. El Cant de les estrelles ha sido de nuevo interpretado el 22 de marzo de 2007, 96 anos despues de su estreno, por el propio Douglas Riva al piano bajo la direccion de Dennis Keene en la Iglesia de la Ascencion de Nueva York.