Gaspar Cassadó

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Compositions

Original works

Concertos

• Cello Concerto in D minor (1926)

This piece, like the Suite for Cello Solo, is influenced by Spanish and Oriental folk music, and Impressionism

Impressionism

Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement that began as a loose association of Paris-based artists art exhibition their art publicly in the 1860s....
. Cassado studied composition with Maurice Ravel

Maurice Ravel

Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer and pianist of Impressionist music known especially for the subtlety, richness, and poignancy of his melodies, orchestral and instrumental Texture and effects....
, and a Ravel-influenced "carnival music" appears in the second theme of the first movement. The second movement is a theme and variations which leads directly to a pentatonic Rondo.

Solo cello works

• Suite for Cello Solo
  Suite (Cassado)
  
  This Suite, like the Cello Concerto in D Minor and the Piano Trio, came from one Cassad?'s most prolific periods, in the mid-1920s. The Suite consists of three dance movements: Preludio-Fantasia - a Zarabanda; Sardana; and Intermezzo e Danza Finale - a Jota ....
  

The Suite

Suite

In music, a suite is an ordered set of instrumental or orchestral pieces normally performed in a concert setting rather than as accompaniment; they may be extracts from an opera, ballet, or incidental music to a play or film , or they may be entirely original movements ....
, like the Cello Concerto and the Piano Trio, came from one Cassadó's most prolific periods, in the mid-1920s. It consists of three dance movements: Preludio-Fantasia (a Zarabanda

Zarabanda

The zarabanda is an old Spain dance related to the sarabande especially popular in the 16th and 17th centuries. It is believed to have originated in Indigenous peoples of the Americas dances....
); Sardana

Sardana

The sardana is a type of circle dance typical of Catalonia.There are two main types, the original sardana curta style and the more modern sardana llarga , which is more popular....
; and Intermezzo

Intermezzo

In music, an intermezzo , in the most general sense, is a composition which fits between other musical or dramatic entities, such as acts of a play or movements of a larger musical work....
 e Danza Finale (a Jota

Jota (music)

The jota is a dance known throughout Spain, most likely originating in Aragon. It varies by region, having characterstic a form in Valencian Community, Aragon, Castilla-La Mancha, Navarra, Cantabria, Asturias, Galicia and Murcia....
). The first movement includes quotations from Zoltán Kodály

Zoltán Kodály

Zolt?n Kod?ly ; December 16, 1882 – March 6, 1967) was a Hungary composer, ethnomusicologist, education, linguistics, and philosophy....
's Sonata for Cello Solo, Op.8, and the famous flute

Flute

The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike other woodwind instruments, a flute is a reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air against an edge....
 solo from Maurice Ravel

Maurice Ravel

Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer and pianist of Impressionist music known especially for the subtlety, richness, and poignancy of his melodies, orchestral and instrumental Texture and effects....
's ballet Daphnis et Chloé

Daphnis et Chloé

Daphnis et Chlo? is a ballet with music by Maurice Ravel. Ravel described it as a "symphonie chor?ographique" . The scenario was adapted by Michel Fokine from an Daphnis and Chloe by the Greece writer Longus thought to date from around the 3rd century AD....
.

• Fugue in the Style of Handel

Solo guitar works

• Canción de Leonardo
• Catalanesca
• Dos Cantos Populares Finlandeses, (Two Finnish Folk Songs)
• Leyenda Catalana
• Préambulo y Sardana
  Sardana
  
  The sardana is a type of circle dance typical of Catalonia.There are two main types, the original sardana curta style and the more modern sardana llarga , which is more popular....
  
• Sardana Chigiana

Works for cello and piano

• Allegretto Grazioso "After Schubert"
• Archares 1954
• Danse du diable vert (Dance of the Green Devil) for violin or cello 1926
• La Pendule, la Fileuse et le Galant 1925
• Lamento de Boabdil
  Boabdil
  
  Abu 'abd-Allah Muhammad XII , known as Boabdil , was the twenty-second and last official king of Nasrid ruler of Granada in Iberian Peninsula....
   1931
• Minuetto "After Paderewski"
• Morgenlied 1957
• Partita 1935
• Pastorale "After Couperin
  Couperin
  
  The Couperin family was a dynastic musical family of professional composers and performers. They were the most prolific family in France musical history, and were very active during the Baroque era....
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• Rapsodia del Sur
• Requiebros 1934
• Serenade
  Serenade
  
  In music, a serenade is, in its most general sense, a musical composition, and/or performance, in someone's honor. There are three general categories of serenade in music history....
   1925
• Sonata in a minor 1925
• Sonata nello stile antico spagnuolo (Sonata in an "Old Spanish Style") 1925
• Toccata "After Frescobaldi
  Girolamo Frescobaldi
  
  Girolamo Frescobaldi was an Italian musician, one of the most important composers of keyboard instrument music in the late Renaissance music and early Baroque music periods....
  " 1925

Chamber works

• Piano Trio
  Piano trio
  
  A piano trio is a group of piano and two other instruments, usually a violin and a cello, or a piece of music written for such a group. It is one of the most common forms found in European classical music chamber music....
   in C major 1926/1929
• String Quartet No. 1 in f minor 1929
• String Quartet No. 2 in G Major 1930
• String Quartet No. 3 in c minor 1933

Transcriptions

Concerto transcriptions

• Cello Concerto in F major, based on C.P.E. Bach's
  Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
  
  Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was a Germany musician and composer, the second of five sons of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach. He was one of the founders of the Classical music era style, composing in the Galante music and Classical periods....
   Concerto No.3 in A major, Wq.172
• Cello Concerto in D Major, based on Mozart's
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty; at seventeen he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position, always...
   Horn Concerto No.3 in E flat major, K.447
• Cello Concerto in A minor, based on Schubert's
  Franz Schubert
  
  Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer. He wrote some 600 lieder, nine symphonies , liturgy music, operas, and a large body of chamber music and solo piano music....
   Sonata for Arpeggione and Piano, D.821
• Cello Concerto in E major, based on Tchaikovsky's
  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  
  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – ) was a Russian composer of the Romantic music era. He wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the current classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake and Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, his Piano Concerto No....
   Piano Pieces, Op.72 (1940)

Cassadó transformed nine of Tchaikovsky's pieces into a concerto. He used No.18 Scene dansante (Invitation au trepak), No.3 Tendres Reproches and No.14 Chant Elegiaque in the first movement; No.5 Meditation and No.8 Dialogue in the second and No.4 Danse Caracteristique, No.2 Berceuse, No.17 Passe Lointain and No.1 Impromptu in the third. This concerto was a favorite of Cassadó's. It was published in 1940 by Edition Schott No.3743.

• Cello Concerto in D Major, based on Weber's
  Carl Maria von Weber
  
  Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber was a Germans composer, conducting, pianist, guitarist and critic, one of the first significant composers of the Romanticism school....
   Clarinet Concerto No.2, in E flat major, Op.74
• Cello Concerto in E minor, based on Vivaldi's
  Antonio Vivaldi
  
  Antonio Lucio Vivaldi , nicknamed il Prete Rosso , was a Baroque music composer and Venice priest, as well as a famous virtuoso violinist, born and raised in the Republic of Venice....
   Cello Sonata No.5, RV.40
• Guitar Concerto in E Major, based on Boccherini's
  Luigi Boccherini
  
  Luigi Rodolfo Boccherini was an Italian classical music era composer and cello whose music retained a courtly and galante style while he matured somewhat apart from the major European musical centers....
   Concerto No. 2 in D major
  Cello Concerto No. 2 (Boccherini)
  
  Luigi Boccherini Cello Concerto No. 2 in D major, G. 479 naturally takes the back seat to the Friedrich Gr?tzmacher ever-famous arrangement of the Cello Concerto No....
  , G.479

Cassadó completely rewrote the Concerto for his colleague Andrés Segovia

Andrés Segovia

Andr?s Torres Segovia, 1st Marquess of Salobre?a was a Spain classical guitarist born in Linares, Ja?n, Spain. He is widely regarded as one of the most important figures of the classical guitar in the beginning and mid 20th century....
. The transcription features a solo string quartet, and trumpet fanfares make it reminiscent of Rodrigo.

Transcriptions for solo cello

• J.S. Bach - Cello Suite no.4, BWV 1010

Cassadó transposed the suite to F major from its original key of E flat major.

• Frederick Chopin - Etude op.25 no.1
• George Frideric Handel
  George Frideric Handel
  
  George Frideric Handel was an England Baroque music composer of Germany birth who is famous for his operas, oratorios, and concerto grosso. His life and music may justly be described as "cosmopolitan": he was born in Germany, trained in Italy, and spent most of his life in England....
   - The Harmonious Blacksmith (from the Harpsichord Suites Vol.1 No.5 "Air and Variations")

Transcriptions for cello and piano

• Issac Albeniz:
• Cadiz (Serenata española)
• Malagueña
  Malagueña
  
  Originally the sixth movement of the Suite Andalucia by Ernesto Lecuona, who also provided it with Spanish lyrics, the song "Malague?a" has since become a Popular music, jazz, marching band, and Drum and bugle corps standard and has been provided with lyrics in several languages....
   Op. 165, No. 3
• Martin Berteau - Studio
• Luigi Boccherini
  Luigi Boccherini
  
  Luigi Rodolfo Boccherini was an Italian classical music era composer and cello whose music retained a courtly and galante style while he matured somewhat apart from the major European musical centers....
   - Minuetto
• Alexander Borodin
  Alexander Borodin
  
  Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin was a Russian composer of Georgian people-Russian people parentage who made his living as a notable chemistry. He was a member of the group of composers called The Five , who were dedicated to producing a specifically Russian kind of art music....
   - Serenata all spagnola (from String Quartet B-La-F)
• Jean-Baptiste Bréval
  Jean-Baptiste Breval
  
  Jean-Baptiste Sebastien Br?val was a France Cello and composer. He wrote mostly pieces for his own instrument, and performed many world premi?res of his own pieces....
   - Sonata in G major (realization of figured bass)
• Frédéric Chopin
  Frédéric Chopin
  
  Fr?d?ric Chopin was a composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic music period. He is widely regarded as the greatest Polish composer, and one of music's greatest tone poets....
   - Minute Waltz, Op.64 no.1
• Constantino de Crescenzo - Prima Carezza
• Claude Debussy
  Claude Debussy
  
  Achille-Claude Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he is considered one of the most prominent figures working within the field of Impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions....
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• Clair de Lune
• Golliwog's cakewalk
• Minstrels
• Antonín Dvorák
  Antonín Dvorák
  
  Anton?n Leopold Dvor?k was a Czechs composer of Romantic music, who employed the idioms and melodies of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia....
   - Sonatine in G Major op.100 (Indian Lament)
• Gabriel Fauré
  Gabriel Fauré
  
  Gabriel Urbain Faur? was a French composer, organist, pianist, and teacher. He was the foremost French composer of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th century composers....
   - Nocturne No.4
• Enrique Granados
  Enrique Granados
  
  Pantal?on Enrique Costanzo Granados y Campi?a was a Spain Catalonia pianist and composer of european classical music. His music is in a uniquely Spanish style and, as such, representative of musical nationalism....
   - Intermezzo (de opera Goyescas)
• Ernesto Halffter
  Ernesto Halffter
  
  Ernesto Halffter was a Spain composer and Conducting. He was the brother of Rodolfo Halffter.Halffter was part of the Grupo de los Ocho , which formed a sub-set of the Generation of '27....
   - Canzone e Pastorella
• Blas de Laserna - Tonadilla
  Tonadilla
  
  Tonadilla was a Spanish musical song form of theatrical origin; not danced. The genre was a type of short, satirical musical comedy popular in 18th-century Spain, and later in Cuba and other Spanish colonial countries....
  
• Franz Liszt
  Franz Liszt
  
  Franz Liszt was a Kingdom of Hungary composer, virtuoso pianist and teacher.Liszt became renowned throughout Europe for his great skill as a performer during the 19th century....
   - Liebestraum Notturno Nr.3
• Benedetto Marcello
  Benedetto Marcello
  
  Benedetto Marcello was an Italy composer, writer, advocate, magistrate, and teacher....
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• Sonata No.1 in C major
• Sonata No.4 in A minor
• Federico Mompou
  Federico Mompou
  
  Federico Mompou was a Spain Catalonia composer. He is best known for his solo piano music and his songs....
   - Chanson et Danse
• W.A. Mozart
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty; at seventeen he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position, always...
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• Rondo Alla Turca (from Piano Sonata K.331)
• Serenata de Don Giovanni [Deh vieni alla finestra]
• Sonata K.358 (from Sonata for Piano Four Hands)
• Georg Muffat
  Georg Muffat
  
  Georg Muffat was a Baroque music composer....
   - Arioso
• Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  
  Ignacy Jan Paderewski Order of the British Empire was a Poland pianist, composer, diplomat, politician, and the third Prime Minister of Poland....
   - Menuett
• Manuel Maria Ponce
  Manuel Maria Ponce
  
  Manuel Mar?a Ponce Cu?llar was a distinguished Mexico composer active in the 20th century. His work as a composer, music educator and scholar of Mexican music connected the concert scene with a usually forgotten tradition of popular song and Mexican folklore....
   - Estrellita (Little Star)
• David Popper
  David Popper
  
  David Popper was a Bohemian cello and composer....
   - Elfentanz
• Johann Strauss II
  Johann Strauss II
  
  Johann Strauss II was an Austrian composer famous for having written over 500 waltzes, polkas, March , and galops. He was the son of the composer Johann Strauss I, and brother of composers Josef Strauss and Eduard Strauss....
   - An der schonen Blauen Donau
• Federico Moreno Torroba
  Federico Moreno Torroba
  
  Federico Moreno Torroba was a Spain composer, born in Madrid....
   - Fandanguillo

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