Bonastre i Bertran, Francesc

Montblanc (Tarragona), 1944-2017.
Formed musically with Francesc Tàpies. Doctor in Romanic Philology by the University of Barcelona with a thesis on verbetas (tropos of liturgical music medieval) directed by Martí de Riquer, with the one he obtained the I Extraordinary Prize in 1970. Between 1969-1972 specializes in baroque musicology in the Spanish Institute of Musicology of the CSIC, with Miquel Querol. He obtains the National Prize of Musicology in 1976 (Ministry of Education and Science).
Author of more than hundred fifty scientific publications on musicology, published in diverse national and international specialized magazines; he is possible to emphasize critics editions of the two ancient oratorios of the peninsula and of the first conserved Spanish opera “Celos aun del aire matan” (text of Pedro Calderón de la Barca and music of Juan Hidalgo).
Co-founder of the Catalan Society of Musicology in 1973; Director-at large of International Musicological Society between 1992-1997. University professor of Musicology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Director of the Institute of Musicology “Josep Ricart i Matas “, where he created the magazine “Recerca Musicològica”, the collection of “Quaderns de Música Històrica Catalana”, and he has organized many symposiums and international congresses.
His academic activity, through investigation projects, courses, conferences, congresses, and interventions in juries, has extended to many other universities. Between the Catalans: Barcelona (Barcelona, Ramon Llull, Oberta de Catalunya), Girona, Lleida, Tarragona; of the Spanish state: Castellón, Valencia, Murcia, Granada, Sevilla, Madrid (Complutensian and Autónoma), Salamanca, Valladolid, Santiago, Oviedo, Navarra and Zaragoza; from Europa: Roma, Parma, Nápoles, París IV (Sorbonne), Tours, Cardiff, Freiburg, Regensburg, Salzburg, Louvain-la-Neuve, New of Lisboa, Aveiro, Coimbra and Oporto; from USA: Harvard, Yale, Polytechnics de California and Bowling Green Estate University.
Corresponsal member to Montblanc (Tarragona) of the Reial Acadèmia Catalana de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi to 1972. In 1977 has been elected number member of section of music and in 1980 “De l’organologia musical i els seus aspectes crítics”.
Corresponsal member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando of Madrid.
He directed “Schola Cantorum” of the University of Barcelona (1967-1972) with which he released the “Passion según San Lucas” de G. Telemann in 1970. He founded and he directed the choir “Gaudium Musicae” (1975-1985), dedicated to the interpretation of the baroque Hispanic repertoire. He directed the group “Mapa Harmonico” (Hispanic music of the baroque, with special attention to the Catalan repertoire).
He is author of 76 compositions, among them: “Suite Montblanquina” (1963), “Joglaresques” (1967), “Homenatge a Lola Anglada” (1984), “Creixell, mar blava” (1994), “Amoroses” (cycle of songs on text of Apel·les Mestres) (1998), “Cantata de Nadal” (2002), “Galeria d’impressions” (about pictorial work of Martinez Lozano) (2003); the cantatas: “Glosas del peregrino” (from the “Llibre Vermell de Montserrat”) (2004), and “El túmulo de Altisidora” (text of Miguel de Cervantes, cap. LXIX of the Quijote) (2005), works for organ, songs… and the simphonic poems “Styx” and “Galeria d’Impressions”.