Levante en la obra sinfónica del maestro Óscar Esplá

Resumen

The composer Oscar Esplá from Alicante (1886-1976), together with Falla, Julio Gómez and Conrado del Campo, occupies a pre-eminent place in the history of twentieth-century Spanish music, and not only because of his extensive catalog of music scores and writings, but also also for having actively participated in the process of musical regeneration (which had been developing since the late nineteenth century thanks to the works of Barbieri and Pedrell) carried out by a whole generation of composers aware of the urgent need to place Spanish music at the same level European; for this, the first step should be to make composers aware of the need to take care of their intellectual and cultural education, not only focusing on the compositional technique, but also on aesthetic and musicological questions, in order to approach the musical fact from all its areas, as it is the only one way to get a complete, global and real idea of the musical art work. His works, always covered with a desire for perfection and especially the Aitana Symphony, are the legacy of a composer with a Mediterranean conscience. Esplá is not a nationalist in the strict sense of the word since his deep Mediterranean sensibility surfaces spontaneously in works that do not usually use textual folkloric quotes. With a personal style, like Turina or Falla with the Andalusian, the music of Esplá becomes the voice of the Levantine region, in the sound of the lands bathed by the Mediterranean, with all its light and sensibility.