From Spain to the United States: Joaquín Rodrigo’s Transatlantic Legacy

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.

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