Luis de los Cobos

Luis de los Cobos Almaraz (Valladolid, 20 April 1927 – Geneva, 16 November 2012) was a Spanish composer. In 1944, he was briefly jailed for taking part in protests against the Francoist government, and after he finished his studies in 1949 he couldn't find a job since he lacked the certificate of adherence to the Spanish State, so he went to exile, settling in Geneva after studying orchestral conducting under Bernardo Molinari in Rome and Eugène Bigot in Paris. Like Xavier Montsalvatge and Manuel Castillo he has been defined as a missing link in the postwar Spanish music, as he was influenced by Shostakovichian modernism while the Spanish scene evolved from nationalism to the Darmstadt avantgarde through his contemporaries of the 1951 Generation. He composed four operas, two symphonies, four concertos and six string quartets.

Compositions

Opera La gloria de Don Ramiro (1975) Mariana Pineda (1982) La Pasión de Gregorio (1983) The Incarnation of Desire (1994)

Ballet Winnie the Pooh (1992)

Orchestral

Symphony orchestra

Symphony No. 1 ″Cursus Vitae″ (1956) Agonía recurrente (1966) Symphony No. 2 ″El pinar perdido″ (2012)

String orchestra

Jungla 1967 (1967)

Chamber orchestra

SoJin Suite (música para un nacimiento y un bautizo) (1991) Cuentos de la princesita (2002)

Concertante

Cello

Cello Concerto No. 1 (1958) Cello Concerto No. 2 ″De la resurrección″ (1981)

Piano

Album del olvido (1982), for two pianos and orchestra

Guitar

Concierto de Nerja (1991)

Violin

Concierto de los cercos (1995) Rapsodia de la espera (2004)

Chamber music

Duos

Nana de la madre pobre (1952), for cello and piano Elegía a las manos de una muchacha (1952), for cello and piano Retrato del olvido y ojos de pájaro herido (1983), for cello and piano Duo para violín y viola (1985) Sonata del cisne (2003), for violin and piano Nana del Campogrande (2006), for violin and piano

Trios

Blue Talks (1987), for two pianos and percussion

Quartets

String Quartet No. 1 ″De la pequeña muerte″ (1978) String Quartet No. 2 ″Una princesa de Kranach en el tren″ (1983) Serenata caprichosa (1987), for flute, bassoon, harp and guitar String Quartet No. 3 ″La nada y el mar″ (1988) String Quartet No. 4 ″De la ausencia″ (1993) String Quartet No. 5 ″Del ensueño″ (1999) String Quartet No. 6 ″Juego de la vida y de la muerte″ (2000)

Solo

Guitar

Añejo mosaico (1952)

Violin

Caprichos (1987)

Cello

Ariana Suite (1996)

Choral

With orchestra

Oración paralela (Requiem) (1977) Misa de Requiem (1996)

A cappella

Miserere (1950)

Vocal

with orchestra

La tierra de Alvargonzález (1951) Hijo del sol y de la sombra (1956)

with chamber ensemble

Nocturno (1952) Hacia el Sur se fue el domingo (1966) Tres cuentos populares (1978) Cinco cantos (1981) Cuatro lieder para cantaor flamenco (1981) La destrucción o el amor (1981) Weinheber Lieder (1996) Suite Ferrández (1997)

with piano

Canciones en el estilo popular (1950) Homenaje a Miguel Hernández (1952) La voz a tí debida (1985)

with other solo instrument

Canciones para mezzo y guitarra (1985) Cuatro piezas blancas (1986), for soprano and two clarinets

Electronic music Suite infantil (1986)