Enric Morera i Viura (; 22 May 1865 – 11 March 1942) was a Catalan musician and composer from Spain.
Career Morera was born in Barcelona but moved with his father, a musician, to Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1867, studying organ, trumpet, and violin there. He returned in 1883 to Barcelona, studying with Isaac Albéniz and Felip Pedrell. Later he lived for two years in Brussels before returning to Argentina. He finally returned to Barcelona in 1890 where he was prominent in the movement Catalan Musical Modernism, with for example the opera La fada (The Fairy) in 1897. He founded the choir "Catalunya Nova". He wrote books on musical theory such as a "Practical Treatise on Harmony".
Among his students were Vicente Asencio, Agusti Grau, Manuel Infante, Xavier Montsalvatge and Carlos Surinach.
His music is generally strongly nationalist in character and forms part of the repertory of Catalan national compositions. He wrote more than 800 compositions, including songs, a requiem mass, lyric works, symphonic works, operas, symphonic poems, and sardanes for cobla.
Although he spent some time in Argentina and Belgium, Morera spent most of his life in Barcelona and died there in 1942.
The personal papers of Enric Morera are preserved in the Biblioteca de Catalunya.
Selected compositions Dansa del gnoms, 1893 Introducció a l'Atlántida, symphonic poem, 1893 Minuet per a quartet de corda, 1889 Jesús de Nazareth, 1894 La fada, opera, 1897 L'alegria que passa, 1898 Missa de rèquiem, 1899 La nit de l'amor, 1901 El comte Arnau, 1905 Bruniselda, 1906 Empòrium, opera, 1906 Don Joan de Serrallonga, 1907 La Santa Espina, patriotic song and sardana, 1907 Cançons populars catalanes harmonitzades, 1910 Titaina, opera, 1912 Tassarba, opera, 1916 Concert per a violoncel i orquestra (cello concerto), 1917 El poema de la nit i el dia i de la terra i de l'amor, symphonic poem, 1920 Cançons de career, 1926 La marieta de l'ullviu, 1926 La cançó dels Catalans, 1930 El castell dels tres dragons, 1931 Dotze cançons del Llibre de la Pàtria, 1936
See also Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu Escola Municipal de Música Sardana
References
Bibliography Aviñoa, Xosé: Morera (Barcelona: Nou Art Thor, 1985) (= Gent Nostra, vol. 37) Morera, Enric: Moments viscuts (auto-biografia) (Barcelona: Gráficas Barcelona, 1936), Pena, Joaquim: Enric Morera : assaig biogràfic (Barcelona: Institució del Teatre, 1937) (= Estudis Institut del Teatre, vol. 17) Planes, Ramon: El mestre Morera i el seu món (Barcelona: Pòrtic, 1972) (= Llibre de butxaca, vol. 55), Saperas, Miquel: El mestre Enric Morera (Andorra la Vella & Barcelona: Editorial Andorra, 1969) (= Collecció Ahir-Demà, vol. 4),
External links Enric Morera i Viura: Biography and Works Personal papers of Enric Morera in the Biblioteca de Catalunya PDF scores and mp3 music