Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: Before embarking on this journey, let me introduce a few very significant details of my father's personality.I don't intend to analyze his music because I am not a musician myself.However, from my point of view as daughter, and after many years as manager and witness to Rodrigo's success throughout the world, I hope these few lines may add supplementary light to the study of the composer.The Maestro's personality can only be truly understood if we know what his process of composition was as a blind composer in the twentieth century.Rodrigo wasblind from the age of three, and although he was an accomplished pianist, he never played the guitar.He wrote his music in Braille, which he adapted to his own needs, and once the manuscript of the work was complete, he dictated it note by note to a copyist, a task which always took him much longer than composing the work itself.
Authors: Cecilia Rodrigo Kamhi, Isabel Pérez Dobarro, Walter Clark, Javier Suárez Pajares, Douglas Riva, Antoni Pizà
Language: English
Subfield: Music
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4236873648