Juan Hidalgo Codorniu
Juan Hidalgo Codorniu (Las Palmas, Canary Islands, 1927) is a Spanish contemporary composer.[1]
Biography
After studying piano and composition in Barcelona and Paris with Nadia Boulanger and Bruno Maderna, in 1957 participates in the XII Internationale Ferienkurse Für Neue Musik festival in Darmstadt with his work "Ukanga", a serial-structural composition for five chamber ensembles. With this piece, Hidalgo becomes the first Spanish composer to take part in the Darmstadt festival. In 1958 Juan Hidalgo met in Darmstadt American composers John Cage and David Tudor who were crucial to his musical and career development.
Founder in 1964 of the ZAJ group with Walter Marchetti, Ramón Barce, and later Esther Ferrer and the writer José Luis Castillejo. ZAJ was a brave exponent of Spanish neodadaism with influences of zen and Marcel Duchamp vision of the arts. It is very interesting to pay attention to the similarities in philosophy and aesthetics between ZAJ and the Japanese Gutai and American Fluxus artistic movements.
One of his most interesting collaborations with John Cage took place in 1978 when Cage and fellow composer Walter Marchetti prepared a musical ride on a train, full of microphones, monitors and sounds directed by Cage himself. The people on board would hear the train's very noises enriched by an additional mix of local music and sounds, giving an audio-portrait of each stop.
Juan Hidalgo is considered as one of the most creative artists of the Spanish avant-garde since the 60’s and he has been active in other artistic fields such as poetry, photography, installation art, postcard art, print media, and performances, participating in numerous international exhibitions and festival.
References
- ↑ Eamonn J. Rodgers Encyclopedia of Contemporary Spanish Culture 1999 - Page 356 "One of the most prominent members of the group was Juan Hidalgo, who was encouraged to explore experimental forms by the American composer John Cage. In 1964, Hidalgo founded Zaj, a movement committed to artistic experiment, ..."
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Sources
- Milano Poesia Catalog 1989, VII Festival internazionale di poesia.
- Editorial de Musica Española Contemporanea. Juan Hidalgo: Catalogo de obras, 1976.
- Barber, Llorenç, Juan Hidalgo, Ritmo. Vol. 566, 1986, pp. 112–13, ISSN 0035-5658.
- Charles, Daniel, Performance (art et esthétique), Encyclopedia Universalis, France.
- Hidalgo, Juan (w. John Cage, Morton Feldman, Leopoldo La Rosa, Walter Marchetti), Rumoriallarotonda, CD booklet (32 pages), ALGA MARGHEN, ITALY, ALGA 031CD, 1998.
- Leyva Sanjuan, Antonio, Zaj: A conversation with Juan Hidalgo, Crónica. Vol. 3, no. 42, 1991, pp. 32–33, ISSN 1131-6705
- Medina Álvarez, Ángel, Primeras oleadas de vanguardistas en el área de Madrid (The first waves of the avant-garde in the Madrid area), in López-Calo, José (ed.), Spain in Western Music, Madrid, Spain: Ministerio de Cultura, 1987. 403, 504 pp.
- Sarmiento, José Antonio, Críticas a un concierto Zaj (Reviews of a concert by Zaj), Cuenca, Spain: Ediciones + 491, 1991.
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