Música, circulación y poesía en las canciones de Pedro Ximénez Abrill Tirado

José Manuel Izquierdo König

doi:10.62230/antec.v3i2.74

Authors

José Manuel Izquierdo König Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1671-6364

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.62230/antec.v3i2.74

Keywords:

Pedro Ximénez Abrill, voice and piano, nineteenth century, music and poetry, music circulation

Abstract

Since the rediscovery of the works of the Peruvian-Bolivian composer Pedro Ximénez Abrill Tirado, a growing interest in his work has developed. This is primarily due to his abundant output of instrumental, orchestral, and chamber music. Nevertheless, to this date his songs for voice and piano, totalling more than 200, have gone largely unnoticed; in particular, because they have been conserved in highly fragmented collections and with numerous duplications. In this article, we offer a classification of these songs from diverse sources and also a theoretical perspective for understanding them. We primarily propose a focus on the song as vehicle for circulation and expression of poetic texts from the period, above all from Spanish and American authors. Thus, the songs of Pedro Ximénez Abrill are not only a valuable repertory in their own right, but also a vehicle for exploring with greater attention the modes of circulation, reception, and appreciation of poetry and song in South America in the first half of the nineteenth century.

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Author Biography

José Manuel Izquierdo König, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Doctor in Music from the University of Cambridge, where he studied with a Gates Cambridge Scholarship, he is currently a professor of musicology at the Institute of Music and director of research and postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Arts of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He has done his work primarily on 19th-century Latin American music, including perspectives on composers, opera, local music, and also sources and heritage aspects. He has dedicated extensive efforts to the study and recovery of the music of José Bernardo Alzedo and Pedro Ximénez Abril Tirado, having published extensively on both composers, as well as on various other topics. For his work as a researcher he has been awarded various awards, including the Otto Mayer Serra, the Ruspoli Prize for Euro-Latin American Musicology and the Tosc@ prize for transnational opera studies. For his efforts in cultural and heritage recovery, he has been declared an illustrious visitor of the city of Arequipa, and received the medal from his hometown, Valdivia.

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