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Introduction

s4istiques le
Jos Broca et

Tbe Spanish guirarisl and cornposer

le Bhme. au-

The poet and guhari$ Florenco

Gomez Parreio. r a poem dedicared to zelmira, one of hs stu-

ahlement pas

Leopodo de Urcirltu li!d durfig

ih firsi hdlf ol the l9rh cenrrrl

la gloire

de

l0

La

maarloile,

rle

en

page. Pire, la

poraries Dion),sio Aguado and Fernando Sorr. We do nor dispose of

ant odrer biographica informarion.

nrre rptii]\,e

Nor nore than a dozen ofUrcutix,s

!'orks have srvived: They were
publshed durng his ite iime by,
anong othem, M. tuco.dj in Mitan,
Le6n Lodre in Madrid. or, as the

son op.

,s

du matriel

denls, puts Urcullu, as musician,

sane le\re as

bs

a1

conlenr,

work, by Jean Augusie

fac;emenr re
iciels d'dnon

prsen1

i partjr de

plano acconrpanimenl_ and aa

l,,iJra4 lntroduction et potoraise,

ins,

l'op l0 de

me .lailitarire.
al. ls lies ori-

Ddrots quiDodifis. Les

Bhrne in Harnburg. They inctude

fantasies and opera arangemenis. a
lew Spanish songs lrirh guirar and

jssued alrcady in a modem

ediron
(Philomele Nr PE 2049).

Bjblothque

Much worse, the 2nd and the 4t

variatjon have only 8+7 bars eaLh.
lacking the 3'd, respectilely rhe 4
bar oftbe B section.
Givn the repetjtive struciure of
the 2 x 8 bars scheme, this caj
easily be corected with moderr
music edting software, but it is
impossible to play t|e variations
corectly from the original edition.
Thus, Urcullu's op. t0 finds here a
late bt merited rehabilitation.

Fingering is edroral. Added dynamics and phmsings arc ma*ed

in the score by square brackets or
by a sash. The following changements do not appear in the score
(page/ systen/ba, beai):

6/5/2/l fircr i/I6 ofr,jpet

8/2/1

treble chord a-c#-#

whole bar lacking

last 1/16 note c nat.
whole bar lacking

Acknowledgements are adressed

d'lya, Plael, a|ec t/qiala Gitare, de F. Mo-

Nt

ljno, op.s (Col. tusclel & Birket

Smth. No.56l)?.

tn

Urcuilu,s
versnnr the harmonisarioD of the
themc is more returd. The vari:tons relnl,rd Femando Sor. his harnonic progressions and. in places.
$e thight polyphonic wriljnB.

The qualil), ofrhe inveBlion ad of

the conposjlion. as well as the
wriling. lechnically demanding.
thorgh idiomatic ro tle guitar,
indeed plac Urcullu besdes ofSor
and Agado, and jusrify a modem

re-edition

of his works.

Urcullu,s

chronological iid srylistjc charac,

teristics are probablv poslerior io
his two coleagues. end some ofls
stylstc leatures are aheady ctose

Jabrhundets. Es

fomationen, De
und Gitanist Fl(
Pareflo hebt ihn,
Schlerin Zelmir
Cedicht, musikalis

che Stfe wie Di

und Femando Sor

etwa ein Dutzen

anderem von L. L

und von Ricordi

drLrcll, und unrfasr

Phaniasien, Beal
OpemausschDi$en

der mit cirarreglernn9, La

op.lO is atlributed to tgnaz pieyei,

accordin8 to an anon)mus manuscripl of e early tgrh century te
longinS to Francisco Herre I it s
aso the tlenre of the Nr.3 of Sd

l0/2/2

De. spanische Gjt

ponist Leopoldo (
whend der erstel

mchienen (Philc
2049), sowie das

Die Vmiationen o

to

Francsco Herera

brought Urculiu

to

for

having
my atlention,

1825 be Jean

Haburg. Das

16

ist lgnaz Pleyel

to Gerhard Penn for hh assistance

at the revision ard to the Royal

(laut eines im Be
cisco Herera befr,

Library in Copnhagen for povj"

ding copies ofthe originai edition.

men Manusloipts

19. Jahrhundert).

findet sich auch al

Molino, op.5 (C

Birket

Smith, l
Verarbeitng ein
an F. Sor, mit s

hannonschen Pro
der z.T. pollphon

Di Qualit{ der
der Fallur, sowi(

anspruchsvolle, at

Satz, besttigen

schtzung von Par

fenigen etue Neur

Urculluh werken

to Jos Broca and Julian Arcas.

'I'he origirra Bhme edtion, issued
around 1820. has probabi, noi

Anist

8/3/l/2

Thmes

tso de Urcullu.

the note mateial on the firl page.

The tleme ofthe p.eseni Varialions

tios

ll6 du rioler:

mrch coDtributed io Urcullu,s

91ory, neither of his op. 10. tt,s
clurlsy layout ams two thirds of

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