Emili Salut Payà

Emili Salut i Payà
Emili Salut i Payà
Born	13 November 1918; Barcelona, Spain
Died	16 May 1982 (aged 63); Barcelona, Spain
Occupation(s)	Trumpeter and composer

Emili Salut i Payà (November 13, 1918 - May 16, 1982) was a Catalan trumpeter and composer.

Biography

Emili Salut i Payà was born in Barcelona.^[1]

Emili Salut attended the Municipal School of Barcelona,^[2] where he studied violin with the teachers Sainz de la Maza^[1] and Costa and piano with Joseph Climent.^[1] But his passion was composition. Later, he took a great interest in the trumpet, so he started lessons with Lluís Rovira^[1] and became part of ensembles in the Avenue of Parallel until 1936,^[1] when the Spanish Civil War broke out.

In 1939, he went to the USSR, where he studied to become a pilot.^[2] Between 1940 and 1941, he was a musician of the Mijail Lipski Orchestra in Moscow.^[1] In 1941, when German troops entered Russian territories, he was locked up for eight years in prisons and concentration camps. When he was released in 1948,^[1] he continued with his music studies.

He married his first wife, Isida Filippova. They had two daughters, Francesca and Violeta.

In 1957 he was able to return to Spain and live in Madrid and Barcelona. He worked at the Radio Nacional de España and then as a teacher at the Assimil Academy.^[3]

Compositions

Chamber music

Collection of six Cànons a 4 and 2 voices, Op. 8 (1953 - 1976), for strings
Guerras civiles de Granada, Op. 13 (1957), for violin and piano
Solo de concierto, for voice, violin and piano

Voice and piano

Agraint un clavell (1982)
Invierno (1946), written in the concentration camp
Recuerdos, memories from the concentration camp

Piano

Canone, Op. 53 (1980)
Elegie, Op. 36 (1940)
Estudi núm. 1: Satànic (1953)
Preludio, Op. 53 (1976)
Recoup, Op. 35 (1970)
Romanza (1947)
Sonata núm. 1 (1947)
12 Valsos per a piano, Op. 15 (1945 - 1971)

Organ

Fugueta, d'introducció i comiat per a una cerimònia nupcial, Op. 25

Choir

Canción Yalta, Op. 9, Russian text
El cargol, Op. 1 (1978)

Cobla

Els brivalls del barri, Op. 3 (1965), sardana for choir and cobla (the traditional music ensemble of Catalonia)
El cargol, Op. 3 (1979), for choir and cobla
En Pere Gallarí, Op. 3 (1976), for choir and cobla
Un pont de cobre l'altre, Op. 3 (1963), for choir and cobla
Remei, Op. 3 (1962), for choir and cobla
La vall, Op. 3 (1965), for choir and cobla

Orchestra

Introducció i comiat per a una cerimònia nupcial, Op. 25 (1963)
Kalinka, Op. 48
Retaule nadalench, Op. 39 (1962)
Romanza, Op. 49 (1962)
Rondó per al tema de Krasnii sarafan, Op. 47
Santa Eulària, esbós poemàtich (1976)
Suite amussette, Op. 35
Suite Tártara núm. 3 (1953)
Tonadilla y Copla, Op. 42 (1969), dedicated to Russian people. The location of this work is unknown

Band

Retaule nadalench, Op. 39 (1962)

Ballet

El Circo, suite for symphony orchestra
Suite lirique, Op. 11
Werther, Op. 16 (1950 - 1978)

Arrangements

Jota aragonesa, of Glimka, instrumentated for band (1962)
Ave Maria, of Franz Schubert, instrumentated for soloist, choir and orchestra

Jazz

Abschor lied
Aufwiedersehen
Foxbrush, foxtrot (1947)
Stormbound
Foxtrot
Glaspliter, intermezzo
Ich will das immer Frühling sein soll
A little house on Michigan Sea
Mutter liebe
Sombrero cordobés (1947)

Jazz arrangements

Love is a many-splendored thing, of Sammy Fain, arranged for trumpet
La sombra de tu sonrisa, of J. Mandel i P. Webster, arranged for trumpet
Blue Skies, arranged for piano

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Agramunt Lacruz, Francisco (2017). Arte en las alambradas: Artistas españoles en campos de concentración, exterminio y gulags. Universitat de València. ISBN 9788491340478. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
^ ^a ^b Sánchez i Agustí, Ferran (2009). Maquis y Pirineos. Editorial Milenio. ISBN 9788497433211. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
^ Biblioteca de Catalunya (ed.). "Emili Salut i Payà. Descripció del fons" (in Catalan). Retrieved 8 March 2014.

External links

Personal papers of Emili Salut in the Biblioteca de Catalunya

[Agramunt-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Agramunt Lacruz, Francisco (2017). Arte en las alambradas: Artistas españoles en campos de concentración, exterminio y gulags. Universitat de València. ISBN 9788491340478. Retrieved 18 February 2019.

[Ferran-2] Sánchez i Agustí, Ferran (2009). Maquis y Pirineos. Editorial Milenio. ISBN 9788497433211. Retrieved 18 February 2019.

[emili-3] Biblioteca de Catalunya (ed.). "Emili Salut i Payà. Descripció del fons" (in Catalan). Retrieved 8 March 2014.

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