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title
El ángel de la guarda
genre
Ballet Music
composition year
1936-38
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premiere

06-05-1955 as a symphonic version under the title Caleidoscopio. Orquestra Municipal de Barcelona. Eduard Toldrà, conductor. Palau de la Música Catalana. Barcelona.


1952 as a  piano solo version. Carmen Bravo, piano.

additional information

Unfinished work and later removed from the catalogue by the composer.

Turned later into Caleidoscopio, four movements for ballet.

Composition's extraordinary prize by the Conservatori Superior Municipal de Música de Barcelona (1954).

Suite for piano solo: pemiered by Carmen Bravo (1952).

Comments

"Being an unfinished work it was not premiered as such a ballet, but its initial material gave later fruits such as the symphonic work Caleidoscopio or the suite for piano L'ange de la garde. It was a trend of Montsalvatge the use of discarded materials to create new works."

 

Jordi Codina, 2023.

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