Antonio Soler y Ramos (1729-1783)
- Concierto VI en re mayor (c.1770)
Performers: Joseph Payne (1937-2008, clavecin); Anthony Newman (clavecin)
Engraving: Georg Braun (1541-1622) & Franz Hogenberg (1539-1590) - Scenographia totius fabricae S. Laurentii in Escoriali (1575)
Further info: Antonio Soler (1729-1783) - Magnificat Secundi Toni
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Spanish composer and organist. At the age of six, after instruction from
his father, Marcos Mateo Pedro Soler (a band musician in the regiment
of Numancia), he entered the famous music school Escolanía in the
monastery of Montserrat where he studied under Benito Esteve, Andrés
Jaumeandreu and Benito Valls. By 1744 he had taken Holy Orders and
obtained the post of organist at the cathedral of La Seu d’Urgell, later
functioning as director in Lleida and finally at El Escorial in Madrid,
in a post he held the rest of his life. There he taught the royal
family, as well as living a simple life in the Heironymite monastery of
San Lorenzo. In 1762 he published a treatise on harmony, 'Llave de la
modulación'. Soler can be considered one of the major composers of the
middle of the 18th century in Spain, whose reputation especially for his
keyboard sonatas achieved international recognition. He composed some
200 of these, as well as 132 villancicos, 60 Psalms, 25 hymns, 13
Magnificats, nine Masses, six quintets for organ and strings, six
concertos for solo organ, five Requiems, and five motets, as well as
some miscellaneous pieces, over 500 compositions in total. His musical
style shows the development of the sonata principle in his sonatas, and
the organ concertos are still performed regularly today as exemplars of a
florid church style. His brother Mateu Soler y Ramos (c.1720-1799) was a
bassoon player and composer.
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