José Luis Pérez de Arteaga

José Luis Pérez de Arteaga (13 April 1950 – 8 February 2017) was a Spanish announcer, critic, journalist, and musicologist.

Biography edit

In 1985, he began to direct and present El mundo de la fonografía in Radio Clásica, a station centered on the area of recorded sound, in discography novelties, historical productions, commemorations and ephemeris, and always evoked through phonographic records. In Radio 1, he was a collaborator of El ojo crítico and, in Radio Exterior, directed En clave de 5. His voice was also habitual in the re-transmissions of the Vienna New Year's Concert for TVE and in the re-transmissions of the concerts of the National Orchestra and Choir of Spain. He wrote several books on the composer Gustav Mahler; in fact, he was considered one of the most important biographers of Mahler in the country. He had dedicated two volumes about his life and his work and also made a complete record inventory of him.[1][2]

He was formed musically in Spain and later in the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. He studied piano with Rosa María Kucharski [es]. He wrote thousands of articles and musical critiques for Ritmo and Scherzo magazines, the Diverdi newsletter, and the ABC, La Razón, and El País newspapers.[3] From 1981 to 1985, he was the director of the Enciclopedia Salvat de la Música.[4]

According to Pérez de Arteaga, his radio mentor was Rafael Taibo [es].

Bibliography edit

  • La cultura española durante el franquismo (1977)
  • Cine para leer (1988)
  • François Truffaut (1988).
  • Gustav Mahler (1986)
  • La música de cámara de Shostakovich (first critical edition, 1991).
  • Mahler (2008)[5] 2nd edition (2011)

References edit

  1. ^ "Adiós a José Luis Pérez de Arteaga, el hombre que sabía explicar la música". 8 February 2017.
  2. ^ "Pérez de Arteaga o la radio musical". 8 February 2017.
  3. ^ Artículos en El País
  4. ^ http://cedros.residencia.csic.es/docactos/2736/nota%20de%20prensa/nota%20de%20prensa02736001.pdf[bare URL PDF]
  5. ^ José Luis Pérez de Arteaga (2011). Mahler. Antonio Machado Libros. ISBN 978-84-9114-081-8.

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