Rodrigo Prats
Rodrigo Prats | |
|---|---|
| Born | Rodrigo Ricardo Prats Llorens February 7, 1909 |
| Died | September 5, 1980 (aged 71) |
| Occupations | Composer, arranger, violinist, pianist, music director |
| Era | Contemporary |
Rodrigo Prats (February 7, 1909 – September 15, 1980) was a Cuban composer, arranger, violinist, pianist and orchestral director.
Biography
[edit | edit source]The son of a musician, Jaime Prats, Rodrigo began to study music at the age of nine. He studied at first under his father, then under Emilio Reynosa, and finished later at the Conservatorio Orbón.[1]
When only thirteen he played violin in the Cuban Jazz Band, the first band of its type in Cuba, which was directed by his father. At around the same time he joined the Orquesta Sinfónica de la Habana, founded by Gonzalo Roig. Prats' first work as a director of an orchestra was for the theatrical company of Arquímedes Pous; later he fronted many other groups. He was the founder of the radio band Orquesta Sinfónica del Aire, the Orquesta de Cámara del Círculo de Bellas Artes. He was deputy director of the Orquesta Filharmónica de la Habana, musical director of RHC-Cadena Azul, and of Canal 4 de TV. Prats was the founder and director at the Teatro Jorge Anckermann, and the musical director of the Teatro Lírico de La Habana. He joined the faculty of Havana's Studio Sylvia M. Goudie in 1956 after his stint at the Iranzo Conservatory.
His body of work includes popular music, sainetes (short comedies), and zarzuelas. Prats composed Una rosa de Francia, a famous criolla-bolero, at 15, and many other pieces, including Aquella noche, Espero de ti, Creo que te quiero and El tamalero. He wrote the music for sainetes such as El bravo and Soledad, and zarzuelas such as Amalia Batista, El pirata, Guamá, La perla del Caribe and María Belén Chacón. It is probably this work for the Cuban musical theatre for which he is best remembered.[2]
Of these, the song associated with Amalia Batista[3] is perhaps one of the best-known standards of Latin American music,[4] having been recorded by multiple artists around the world.[4][5][6][7][8][9]
Works or publications
[edit | edit source]- Amalia Batista : zarzuela. OCLC 030071049
- Comparsa de la perla del Caribe. OCLC 024412247
- Corazón no llores. OCLC 071292295
- Dolor y amor : bolero. OCLC 019995461
- Los poemas musicales : composiciones liricas. OCLC 032971918
- María Belén Chacón : romanza cubana. OCLC 013549654
- Romanzas y canciones cubanas. OCLC 659107994
- Una rosa de Francia. OCLC 077059583
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Orovio, Helio 1981. Diccionario de la música cubana. La Habana. p309
- ^ Piñero Díaz, José 1985. Rodrigo Prats Llorens: director de orquesta y compositor. La Habana.
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Library and archival resources by or about Rodrigo Prats.
- Magali O. Acosta Collection, 1956–1960 at the Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami Libraries. This archival collection contains parts and scores for arrangements written by Prats between 1956 and 1960.
- A selection of Prats's original scores Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, including the zarzuela Amalia Batista, has been digitized by the Cuban Heritage Collection.
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- 1909 births
- 1980 deaths
- Cuban classical violinists
- People from Sagua la Grande
- Cuban male classical violinists
- Cuban classical pianists
- Cuban classical composers
- Cuban opera composers
- 20th-century Cuban conductors (music)
- 20th-century classical violinists
- 20th-century Cuban classical composers
- 20th-century classical pianists
- Cuban male classical composers
- Male opera composers
- Male classical pianists
- 20th-century male musicians