Donostia, Josée Antonio de (real name, José Gonzalo Zulaica y Arregui)

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Donostia, Josée Antonio de (real name, José Gonzalo Zulaica y Arregui)

Donostia, Josée Antonio de (real name, Josée Gonzalo Zulaica y Arregui), Spanish organist, musicologist, and composer; b. San Sebastián, Jan. 10, 1886; d. Lecároz, Navarre, Aug. 30, 1956. He studied with Echazarrá at the Lecároz Franciscan Coll., Esquerra in Barcelona, Gaviola in San Sebastián, and Cools and Roussel in Paris. He worked in Toulouse (1936), Paris (1939–40), and Bayonne (1941–43) as an organist and choirmaster, then became head of the folklore dept. of Barcelona’s Spanish Inst. of Musicology (1943), where he brought out monographs and eds. of Basque folk song.

Works

CHAMBER 12 romanzas for Violin and Piano (1905–10); String Quartet (1906); 3 piezas for Cello and Piano (1906); La Quete heroique de Graal for 4 Ondes Martenot and Piano (1938); Pdgina romdntica for Violin and Piano (1941); piano pieces; organ music. VOCAL: Les Trois Miracles de Ste. Cecile for Chorus and Orch. (1920); La Vie profonde de St. François d’Assise for Chorus and Orch. (1926); Le Noel de Greecio for Chorus and Orch. (1936); Poema de la Pasion for 2 Sopranos, Chorus, and English Horn (1937); Missa pro defunctis for Chorus and Organ (1945).

Writings

La musica popular vasca (Bilbao, 1918); Euskel eres-sorta (Bilbao, 1922); Essai d’une bibliographie musicale populaire basque (Bayonne, 1932); Musica y musicos en el pais vasco (San Sebastian, 1951); El “Moto proprio” y la cancion popular religiosa (San Sebastian, 1954); Euskal-erriko otoitzak (San Sebastian, 1956).