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==Artistic history== From the opening of the palace in 1908 special attention was given to the promotion of local composers and artists. After [[World War I]] the [[Orquestra Pau Casals]] performed at the palace, and among composers featured gave presentations of the music of [[Enrique Granados]] from 1921 onwards.<ref>Walter Aaron Clark ''Enrique Granados: Poet of the Piano'' 2005 "... arranged by Casals and programmed by him as director of the Orquestra Pau Casals in Barcelona during the years after Granados's death. The first such presentation took place on April 30, 1921 at the palace."</ref> [[Pablo Casals]] and [[Alicia de Larrocha]] are among the many soloists and singers who have performed there.<ref name="Hughes"/> ===Premières performed=== As the main concert hall in the city, the palace has staged many world [[première]]s of musical compositions, including the following * 1908 [[Enric Granados]]' symphonic poem ''[[Dante]]''. * 1911 [[Enric Granados]]' first book of his piano suite ''[[Goyescas]]'' and his ''Allegro de concierto'' and ''Cant de les estrelles'' (''Song of the stars''), for chorus and orchestra; [[Isaac Albéniz]]'s ''Azulejos'', prelude for piano finished by [[Enric Granados]]. * 1914 [[Enric Granados]]' ''[[12 Tonadillas en estilo antiguo|Tonadillas en estilo antiguo]]'', song cycle for voice and piano. * 1921 [[Eduard Toldrà]]'s string quartett ''Vistes al mar'' (''Sight to the sea'') (31 May). * 1923 [[Joaquín Turina]]'s ''Tres arias'' for soprano and piano. * 1925 [[Manuel de Falla]]'s ''Psyché'', and [[Frederic Mompou]]'s ''Charmes'', núm. 4-6. * 1926 [[Jaume Pahissa]]'s ''Suite intertonal'' (October 26); [[Joaquín Turina]]'s ''Dos canciones'' (October 29) for soprano and piano; [[Manuel de Falla]]'s [[Harpsichord Concerto (Falla)|Harpsichord Concerto]] (November 5). * 1928 [[Eduard Toldrà]]'s opera ''El giravolt de maig'' (''The May sunflower''); [[Frederic Mompou]]'s ''Comptines'', three songs for voice and piano; [[Joaquín Turina]]'s ''Ritmos: fantasia coreográfica'' for orchestra (''Rhythms: a choreographic fantasy'') (October 23), and ''Evocaciones'' for piano (October 29). * 1929 [[Roberto Gerhard]]'s Concertino for strings, Wind quintet, and other of the author's early works. * 1932 Manuel Blancafor]'s ''El rapte de les sabines'' (''The Sabine women abduction'') (other Blancafort's works were premiered here after: ''Ermita i panorama'' (''Hermit and panorame'') (1946), ''Concert omaggio a Franz Liszt'' (1944), ''Concert ibèric'' (''Iberian concerto'') (1950), ''Simfonia en mi'' (1951), ''Cantata Verge Maria'' (''Virgin Mary cantata'') (1968), ''Rapsòdia catalana'' (''Catalan rhapsody'') (1972), etc.) * 1936 [[Alban Berg]]'s [[Violin Concerto (Berg)|Violin concerto]] (April 19); [[Roberto Gerhard]]'s suite from the ballet ''Ariel''. * 1938 [[Roberto Gerhard]]'s ''Albada, interludi i dansa'' (''Sunrise, interlude and dance'') (May 14) * 1940 [[Joaquín Rodrigo]]'s ''[[Concierto de Aranjuez]]'' (November 9). * 1945 [[Xavier Montsalvatge]]'s ''Cinco canciones negras'' (only the four first songs; the first performance of the five songs was given a few months after at the [[Ateneu Barcelonès]]); many other of the Montsalvatge's works have had their premieres at the palace. * 1946 [[Joaquín Rodrigo]]'s ''Quatre cançons en llengua catalana'' (''Four songs in Catalan language''). and ''Tríptic de Mossèn Cinto'' (''[[Jacint Verdaguer]]'s triptych''), both song cycles for soprano and orchestra. * 1948 [[Xavier Montsalvatge]]'s ''Simfonia mediterrània'' (''Mediterranean Symphony''). * 1952 [[Frederic Mompou]]'s ''Cantar del alma'', choral version. * 1954 [[Salvador Bacarisse]]'s 3rd Piano Concerto. * 1957 [[Salvador Espriu]]'s play ''Primera història d'Esther''. * 1959 [[Joaquín Nin-Culmell]]'s ballet ''Don Juan''. * 1960 [[Xavier Montsalvatge]]'s ''Càntic espiritual''. * 1961 [[Frederic Mompou]]'s ''Variacions sobre un tema de Chopin'' for orchestra; [[Joan Brossa]]'s play ''Or i sal''. * 1963 [[Xavier Montsalvatge]]'s ''Desintegració morfològica de la xacona de J. S. Bach'' (''Morphological disintegration of J.S. Bach's chaconne''); [[Josep Carner]]'s play ''El Ben Cofat i l'altre''. * 1966 [[Joaquin Homs]]' String quartet no. 6; other of Homs's works have had their premieres at the palace: ''Invention for orchestra'' (1965), ''Presències'' for orchestra (1970), ''Dos soliloquis'' (1976), ''Brief symphony'' (1978), Nonet (1979). * 1967 Cristòfol Taltabull's oratorio ''La Passió'' (''Passion''). * 1971 [[Krzystof Penderecki]]'s Prélude for winds, percussion and double basses. * 1974 [[Josep Soler (composer)|Josep Soler]]'s opera-oratorio ''Oedipus et Iocasta'' (many of Soler's works were first performed at the palace); [[Cristóbal Halffter]]'s ''Oración a Platero'' for choir and orchestra. * 1977 [[Joaquín Rodrigo]]'s ''Sonata a la breve'', for cello and piano. * 2017 Guido Lopez-Gavilan's ''Una Cancion de Amor'' (24 July), for choir (commissioned by the [[IFCM]] for the Ansan City Choir, on the occasion of the 11th World Symposium on Choral Music); Xavier Pages-Corella's ''Audito e un Canto'' (24 July), for choir (commissioned by the [[IFCM]] for [[The Rose Ensemble]], on occasion of the 11th World Symposium on Choral Music); [[Jaakko Mantyjarvi]]'s ''Juliet November Tango'' (27 July), for choir (commissioned by the [[IFCM]] for Elektra Women's Choir, on occasion of the 11th World Symposium on Choral Music).
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