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Pianist Miriam Gómez-Morán


Homenaje a Isaac Albéniz (III. Salamanca) / Tribute to Isaac Albéniz (III. Salamanca)

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After Jaén and León, first and second numbers of the Tribute to Isaac Albéniz and composed respectively in 2001 and 2009, the turn came in 2010 to the third and last movement, Salamanca, which came to complete the project of the false “fifth notebook” of Iberia, whose idea had been haunting me since Jaén was performed many times as it was the obligatory work of the 44th edition of the International Piano Competition "Premio Jaén", held in March 2002.
As in the case of its predecessors, Salamanca takes directly from Iberia not only the reference to a Spanish geographical point, but also the virtuosic character of the treatment of the piano and the use of popular material from Salamancan folklore. Specifically, I used the melody of two “Charradas” (the one from San Roque and the one from Santiago de la Puebla, collected in 2004 by Lola Pérez Rivera in the compilation "Shawm music in Castilla and León"), with its characteristic rhythm in which the pulse is divided into groups of five sixteenth notes, instead of the usual four of any binary, ternary or quaternary rhythm, and that of the "Sol y Luna" jota from Salamanca, collected in "Spanish musical folklore", by Juan Hidalgo Montoya (1974).

Charrada de San Roque, performed by "Los Pachulos"


The charradas of San Roque and of Santiago de la Puebla, and its use
in two fragments of Tribute to Isaac Albéniz (III. Salamanca)

The material from the charradas serves as the basis for the main thematic ideas of a virtuosic nature in the piece, while the melody of the jota, with its more singable character, is combined contrapuntally in the central part of the piece with the use of the motif of Margarita from the "Faust" Symphony by Franz Liszt, in a conceptual game related to the specialization in the music of the Hungarian composer by Miriam Gómez-Morán, a student of my harmony courses at the Madrid conservatory at the beginning of the decade of the 90s of the last century and dedicatee of the score.


The "Sun and Moon" jota, the motif of Marguerite from Liszt's "Faust" Symphony, and
the use joint of both in a fragment of Tribute to Isaac Albéniz (III. Salamanca)

Salamanca was composed between the months of May and July 2010, being premiered at the Auditorium of the Superior Conservatory of Music of said city on October 10, 2012 by Miriam Gómez-Morán, preceded by a brief presentation of the work for my part.

Program of the premiere of Tribute to Isaac Albéniz (III. Salamanca)


First page of Tribute to Isaac Albéniz (III. Salamanca)



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Miriam Gómez-Morán

Salamanca, Auditorium of the High Conservatory of Music, October 10, 2012
(Low quality recording)



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