Francisco Llácer Pla
Francisco Llácer Pla (Valencia, 1918 - Valencia, 2002) was a Spanish composer and choral conductor. He was one of the first Valencian composers who assimilated the postwar avantgarde approaches, combining it with lyricism and echoes of the Valencian folklore. Tomás Marco wrote: Llácer Pla offers a new, suggestive vision of a form of musical nationalism from a new, progressive perspective[1]. A professor in Valencia's Conservatory, several of his progressive works are based in his harmonic investigations, such as his concept of heptafonism and his theory of the "balanced chord", based on the double sense of the sonorous bodies' resonance[2].
Incomplete list of works
- 1952 - Dos lieder amatorios.
- 1953 - Campanar de Benigànim, for women's choir.
- 1954 - Popular tryptique for children's choir.
- 1954 - El bosque de Opta, for piano and orchestra.
- 1955 - Piano Sonata.
- 1956 - Primavera en hivern.
- 1956 - Rondó mirmidón for orchestra.
- 1959 - Al bon Déu, for children's choir.
- 1959 - Aguafuertes de una novela, symphonic suite.
- 1960 - Cançoneta dels innocents, for children's choir and organ.
- 1960 - Piano Sonatina.
- 1962 - Zoco esclavo y marcha oriental, for band.
- 1962 - Sincrección-Divertimento for string orchestra.
- 1963 - Pentámero for harp.
- 1964 - Inventions for six instruments.
- 1964 - Himno de la enfermera, for women's choir and orchestra.
- 1966 - Misa puericia, for children choir and organ.
- 1966 - Nou cançons per a la intimitat, for soprano, flute, clarinet, bassoon and piano.
- 1969 - Heptafonique ballade for string orchestra.
- 1970 - Ciclos for violin and piano.
- 1971 - Himne del jardiner, for men's choir and band.
- 1972 - Cançó per a la intimitat, for violin and piano.
- 1972 - Lamentació de Tirant lo Blanc, for choir.
- 1973 - Tres ratlles curtes, for children's choir.
- 1974 - Migraciones, for soprano and orchestra.
- 1974 - Motete para el día sexto, for string quartet.
- 1975 - Ajonetes, for children's choir.
- 1977 - Episodios concertantes for guitar, two string quartets and percussion.
- 1977 - Liturgia I, for organ.
- 1978 - Amén de Folies, for orchestra.
- 1980 - La otra trova Heptafónica, for cello and piano.
- 1981 - Dístico percutiente for piano.
- 1981 - Liturgia II, for wind quintet.
- 1984 - Piano Concerto.
- 1985 - Tenebrae, for flute and piano.
- 1986 - Espacios sugerentes, for piano.
- 1987 - Ricercare concertante for two pianos and orchestra.
- 1987 - Textura y tropos, for flute and piano
- 1988 - Plurívoco for piano.
- 1990 - Te Deum.
- 199? - Jucunde et Pacificus, for piano.
- 1994 - Breve Sonata mudante, for piano, op.62.
- 1996 - Music por prepared clavecin, by quarter tones, op.63.
- ? - Poetizando lo cotidiano, for counterbass, op.70.
Quotes
- I work on a preliminary design of the material, but not just at an harmonic level. On the base of the dodecaphonic series I first construct a linear design, which usually has consequences in the verticality of the music, since my balanced chords are usually intimately bounded with the linear design. Sometimes two balanced chords generate the dodecaphonic range which I use as a sonorous background from where I extract the thematic material. I believe that maybe, in my preconscious, though in an unclear way, there's always an explorative eagerness."[3]
References
- ^ Marco, Tomás, Historia de la Música Española - siglo XX. Colección Alianza Música, Alianza Editorial. Madrid, 1983.
- ^ Bueno Camejo, Francisco, El ordenamiento armónico en la música de Francisco Llacer Pla: "Distico percutiente", Opus 37, y el "Acorde equilibrado". Archivo de arte valenciano (ISSN 0211-5808), nº75, 1994, pags.148-154.
- ^ Ruvira Sánchez de León, Josep, La generación musical de 1930. Historia de la Música de la Comunidad Valenciana, pags.382-384. Prensa Alicantina, 1992.
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