Luis de Pablo is a Spanish

Spain

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 composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

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He was born in Bilbao

Bilbao

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, living in Madrid

Madrid

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 from age six and starting to compose aged 12. Although he received composition lessons from Maurice Ohana

Maurice Ohana

Maurice Ohana was an Anglo-French composer of Sephardic Jewish origin.Ohana was born in Casablanca, Morocco. He was a British citizen until 1976, as his father had been born in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar. He originally studied architecture, but abandoned this in favour of a...

 and Max Deutsch

Max Deutsch

Max Deutsch was an Austrian-French musical composer, conductor, and teacher.He was a pupil of Arnold Schoenberg and founded the theater Der Jüdische Spiegel in Paris. Here, many works of composers like Schoenberg, Anton Webern, or Alban Berg were debuted in France...

, he was essentially an autodidact in composition. His participation at the Darmstadt

Darmstadt

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 courses in 1959 led to the performance of some of his works under Boulez and Maderna

Bruno Maderna

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He was awarded Spain's Premio Nacional de Música

Premio Nacional de Música

The Premio Nacional de Música forms part of the annual National Awards in Spain....

 for composition in 1991.

In Spain, he founded several organizations: Nueva Música, Tiempo y Música, and Alea and organized several contemporary music concert series. He is much in demand as a teacher, both in Spain and internationally.

Selected works

Chamber music

• Anatomías for Viola Solo, 2 Clarinets, Horn, Trombone and Harp (2005–2007)
• Ex voto for Violin and Viola (1995)
• Monólogo for Viola Solo (1990–1992)

Orchestral music

• Las Orillas for Orchestra (1990)

Discography

• Libro de imágenes, Segunda Lectura, Metáforas. Stradivarius
• Senderos del aire and works for flute. Col Legno
• Dibujos, Fragments from Kiu, Chamber Concerto etc. ADDA
• Tarde de Poetas. Harmonia Mundi
• Piano Trio. Ermitage ERM 413
• Visto de Cerca, para 3 músicos y cinta; Chaman, obra electronica. Hispavox LP (30) 130 202
• Al Son que Tocan, Homenaje a Antonio Machado. RCA LP SRL2-2444

Writings

• Aproximación a una estética de la música contemporánea, 1968
• Lo que sabemos de música, 1968

Listening

• Luis de Pablo at the Avant Garde Project has FLAC files made from high-quality LP transcriptions available for free download.