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Giner y Vidal, Salvador
José Climent
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Published in print: 20 January 2001
Published online: 2001
(b Valencia, Jan 19, 1832; d Valencia, Nov 3, 1911). Spanish composer. Born into a family of musicians, he
had his rst lessons from his father, studying later under the organist of Valencia Cathedral, Pascual Pérez
y Gascón. From 1875 to 1879 he worked in Madrid, afterwards returning to Valencia where he was an active
promoter of music. He played an important part in the foundation of the city’s conservatory and was
appointed director in 1894 in succession to José María Úbeda. He formed the municipal band and the choral
society El Micalet, which in 1928 became the Giner Institute of Music. Giner was responsible for the
introduction to Valencia of concert music as it is now understood, and he also tried to create nationalist
music by composing operas based on Valencian folk music. Although they were failures he did succeed in
writing characteristically Valencian music, notably the symphonic poems Una nit d’albaes and Es chopà …
hasta la Moma, and L’entrà de la murta, written for the municipal band in 1903. But it is liturgical music
which has pride of place in his output. He composed a requiem in 1878 for the funeral of Queen Mercedes.
An even ner requiem setting was written in 1880 after the death of Cristobal Pascual y Genís; this is a
work of remarkable vividness and strength.
Works
(selective list)
Stage
¿Con quién caso a mi mujer? (zar, 3, Chocomeli), Valencia, Principal, 2 May 1883
El rayo de sol (zar, 3, Nogués), Madrid, Jovellanos, 10 Nov 1875
Sagunto (comic op, 3, Cebrián), Valencia, Principal, 20 Dec 1890
Los mendigos (zar, 3, Guillén), Valencia, Principal, 1896
El soñador (comic op, 3, Danvila), Valencia, Principal, 10 April 1901
El fantasma (comic op, 3, Giner), Valencia, Principal, 13 April 1901
Morel (comic op, 3, Chocomeli), Valencia, Principal, 18 April 1901
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Choral
Sacred
18 masses, solo vv, unacc. or with chorus, org, orch; 11 requiem masses, chorus unacc. or with orch; responsories for the dead;
motets, hymns, settings of pss, Miserere and Lamentations
Secular
43 works, incl. La feria de Valencia, 1871
La festa del poble; La trilla, 1896
La tempestad, 1897
Al surcar el lago, 1875
Ecos del Turia
Orchestral
Sym., on themes from Mercadante’s Le 7 parole di nostro signore, 1858
Sym. ‘Las fases del campo’, 1864
Elegia a Rossini, 1878
8 sym. poems, incl. Es chopà … hasta la Moma, 1886
Una nit d’albàes, 1881
El festín de Baltasar, 1893
Bibliography
J. Ruiz de Lihory: La música en Valencia: diccionario biográfico y crítico (Valencia, 1903)
A. Fernández-Cid: Cien años de teatro musical en España (1875–1975) (Madrid, 1975)
J. Climent: Historia de la música contemporánea valenciana (Valencia, 1978)
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