SU UN OCEANO DI SCAMPANELLII 1994/95
for piano, 24’
commissioned by: Saarländischer Rundfunk
première: 16/05/1996, Saarbrücken / Germany. Massimiliano Damerini (piano)
• Universal Edition 30167 (1995)
from it: Scherzo (I–II–III–VII–VIII–X) [ca. 9'] Cadenza (V) [ca. 3'30"]
GREEN AURORA DANCING OVER THE NIGHT SIDE OF THE EARTH 2006
for piano. 10’
commissioned by: Robert-Schumann-Gesellschaft e. V. Düsseldorf for the Concours-Clara-Schumann 2007
• Universal Edition UE 33418 (2007)
JEREZ DESDE EL AIRE O AL AIRE DE JEREZ 2009
for piano. 7’
commissioned by: Asociación Española de Festivales de Música Clásica
première: 28/11/2009, Cádiz / Spain. Juan Carlos Garvayo
• Universal Edition
SUB ROSA 2012
for piano solo. 12’
commissioned by: Juan Carlos Garvayo/ Asociación Voltaire
première: 12/06/2012, Madrid/España. Juan Carlos Garvayo
• Universal Edition
ABER DAS WEHENDE HÖRE… 2012
for piano solo. 9’33’’
dedication: Yehuda Elkana
• Universal Edition
ANCORA UN SEGRETO… 2012/13
Hommage–Sonate per Alfred Brendel
for piano solo. 17’
commissioned by: 60. Internationale Klavierwettbewerb Ferruccio Busoni/ Siemens Musikstiftung
première: 25/08/2014, Bolzano/Italia. Juan Carlos Garvayo
• Universal Edition
Encore… la joie _III
from Ancora un segreto 2013
for piano solo. 3’
• Universal Edition
ENTRA EL ALBA EN LA ALHAMBRA 2021 for piano and live electronics ad lib. 9’30’’ commissioned by: CNDM première: 28/02/2022. Auditorio 400 Reina Sofía. Madrid / Spain. Juan Carlos Garvayo, piano. • Universal Edition SUPERNOVA-SANTA MARINA LA REAL 2008 for organ. 12’ commissioned by: XXV Festival Internacional de Órgano Catedral de León première: 11/10/2008, Iglesia de Santa Marina la Real, León / Spain. Adolfo Gutiérrez Viejo, organ • Universal Edition EL AMOR IMPOSIBLE 1996 for guitar. 3’ première: 17/08/1996 Iglesia de Santa Marina, Udalla (Cantabria) / Spain. Gabriel Estarellas (guitar) • Álbum de Colien para guitarra (Barcelona: Ediciones Cecilia Colien Honegger, 2000 [1998]), pp. 73-75. COMO LLORA EL AGUA… 2008 para guitarra flamenca. 12’ commissioned by: MaerzMusik – Festival für aktuelle Musik, Berlín première: 13/03/2008, Universität der Künste, Berlín / Germany. Juan Manuel Cañizares (guitarra) • Universal Edition Encore… la joie _I from Como llora el agua 2013 for guitar solo. 3’ • Universal Edition DE VINCULIS: GE-BURT. A FRANCIS BURT 2001 for violin. 12’ commissioned by: Centro para la Difusión de la Música Contemporánea / Ministerio de Cultura. preview: 06/042001, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Vienna / Austria. Joanna Lewis (violin) première: 28/02/2002, Auditorio Nacional de Música, Madrid / Spain. Joanna Lewis (violin) • Universal Edition UE 31871 (2001) ESTREMECIDO POR EL VIENTO. CANTO A FEDERICO PARA VIOLÍN SOLO 2001 for violin. 4-5’ composed for Sian Philips première: 25/072003, London / UK. Sian Philips (violin) • Universal Edition UE 32614 (2003) MUROS DE DOLOR... V: JOSÉ ÁNGEL VALENTE-MEMORIA SONORA 2009 for violin and live electronics. 10’ première: 24/09/2009, Ourense / Spain. Raquel Rivera • Universal Edition WHITE INNER LIGHT 2015 for solo violin. ca. 5’ commissioned by: Proyecto Sotelo SL première: Jugend Musiziert. Kassel/Germany. P. Mauricio Sotelo-Romero • Proyecto Sotelo SL BLUE INNER LIGHT 2017 for solo violin. 3’ • Proyecto Sotelo SL Encore… la joie _II a from Luz Sobre Lienzo 2013 for violin solo. 3’ • Universal Edition DE CELESTE Y ORO 2021 for solo violin. 9’30’’ commissioned by: CNDM première: 28/03/2022. Auditorio 400 Reina Sofía. Madrid/ Spain. Lina Tur Bonet, violín. • Universal Edition for solo viola. 8’ première: 23/02/2018. Beethovenhaus, /Germany; Tabea Zimmermann (viola) • Universal Edition DE AMORE 1995 for violonchelo, 9’ commissioned by: City of Munich. première: 05/11/1996. Gasteig, Munich / Germany. Yves Savary (violoncello) • Universal Edition UE 30335 (1995) MUROS DE DOLOR... VI: Soleá 2010 for violoncello. 10’ commissioned by: Composer Association “The Sound Set Japan” première: 24/09/2010, Auditorium Musicasa, Tokyo / Japan. Ryou Onoki • Universal Edition COMO LLORA EL AGUA… 2024 para violoncello. 15’ version for violoncello from the original for guitar by Ignacio Alcover • Universal Edition TRAMA, IL FLAUTO DI MARSIA 1996 for flute. 22’ commissioned by: Fondazione Gustav Mahler de Cortona première: 13/07/1997,Cortona / Italy. Roberto Fabbriciani (flute) • Universal Edition DEL AURA AL SUSPIRAR 1998 for double bass-flute (or bass-flute) and sound carrier.12’ commissioned by: Roberto Fabbriciani première: 21/07/1998, Cividale del Friuli / Italy.
ORGAN
GUITAR
VIOLIN
VIOLA
VIOLONCELLO
FLUTE
• Universal Edition UE 31832
MUROS DE DOLOR… I_b 2012
for flute. 4’
• Universal Edition
MUROS DE DOLOR… II 2005
for flute
commissioned by: Sociedad Española de Conmemoraciones Culturales
première: 07/11/2005. Residencia de Estudiantes, Madrid / Spain. Alessandra Rombolá (flute)
• Universal Edition
A ROBERTO-LA CHIAREZZA DESERTA 2009
for flute
première: 26/04/2009, Zagreb / Croatia
• Universal Edition
TONÁ 2003
for clarinet
première: 28/04/2003 Teatre Talia, Valencia / Spain. José Luis Estellés (clarinet)
• Piles ‘Quadern Ensems per a solistes’ (2004), pp. 117-119
ARGOS 1997
for alto or tenor saxophone. 22’
commissioned by: Centro para la Difusión de la Música Contemporánea (CDMC) / Ministerio de Cultura
première: 11/07/1997 Iglesia de San Juan de los Caballeros, Segovia / Spain. Marcus Weiss (saxophone)
• Universal Edition UE 30368 (1997)
from it: Liebeslied I –parts I, II and IV– [saxophone alto, 8’]; Liebeslied II –parts VI, IX and X– [saxophone tenor, 9’] and Cantabile amoroso –parts IV and VI– [ soprano, alto or tenor saxophone, 6’]
CANTABILE AMOROSO 1997
for alto or tenor saxophone. 22’
fragment of "ARGOS"
• Universal Edition
MUROS DE DOLOR… I 2005
for tenor saxophone. 4’
commissioned by: Mostra Sonora de Sueca
première: 25/06/2005 Sueca / Spain. Marcus Weiss (saxophone)
• Universal Edition
DE VINCULIS: GONG. A NURIA SCHÖNBERG NONO 2001
for percussion. 14’
commissioned by: Centro de Estudios Neopercusión
première: 28/02/2002, Auditorio Nacional de Música, Madrid / Spain. Juanjo Guillem (percussion)
• Universal Edition UE 31991 (2001)
MUROS DE DOLOR … VIIb 2018
for solo Marimba. 8’
première: Juanjo Guillem
• Universal Edition
Encore… la joie _I
from Como llora el agua 2013
for guitar solo. 3’
• Universal Edition
Encore… la joie _II a
from Luz Sobre Lienzo 2013
for violin solo. 3’
• Universal Edition
Encore… la joie _II b
from Luz Sobre Lienzo 2013
for violin solo. 3’
• Universal Edition
Encore… la joie _III
from Ancora un segreto 2013
for piano solo. 3’
• Universal Edition
Works written before 1989 have been withdrawn by the composer
• Anagrama (1986), piano
• … dans un ultime murmure… (1988), marimba
• SAX-SOLO (1988), saxophone
Edition Contemp-Art.
• L’Allegria (1992), violoncello
"I know, appreciate and admire Mauricio Sotelo as an internationally recognized composer with a very personal style. He is endowed with a brilliant and sovereign metier in all compositional genres and a universal art-philosophical background. I've been experiencing him since I've known him, with all his structuralist character, as it is ensured not least by his training with Luigi Nono, at the same time stylistically open, definitely not denying his Iberian landscape roots and instead constantly introducing them imaginatively."
When a few years ago I met Mauricio Sotelo, he was just about to familiarize himself with Liszt's Sonata. This not only led to a friendship but also induced the idea of writing a work that would relate both to the Sonata and to our encounter. In the last decades, a number of musical works have emerged that are composed interpretations of older ones. We can regard them as a counter-position to historicising performances that have established themselves in many concert halls. According to Hans Zender, himself a contributor to this new species, the composer "is creator. But he is these days also an interpreter of the past to which he relates - whether seeking to surmount it, or to carry on." Sotelo's work is a confrontation of this kind, an argument dealing with the shape and the material of Liszt's Sonata that has resulted in something personal and spectacular.
Mauricio Sotelo's music is one of the most intense illuminations that, in the air of sounds, can find the semantics of words. I heard about Mauricio from one of the greatest composers of our time, Luigi Nono, who I met in 1988 at the Institut for Advanced Study in Berlin. Luigi was the one who asked me if I knew a young Spanish composer about whom, I confess, knew nothing about. Since then, the admiration I felt for Nono is linked to the person and music of Mauricio. The work of two disappeared friends [Luigi Nono and José Ángel Valente] grows, lasts, illuminates and survives in the prodigious sound universe of Mauricio Sotelo.
Your music shows that twentieth-century anti-tonal academic standards can be shattered, just as the atonal music of the last century shattered nineteenth-century tonal norms. Few operas are successful because there is an insurmountable contradiction between the demands of singing and the straitjacket of norms of the second half of the twentieth century. You use "flamenco" as a crutch to not cut your music from any popular roots nor any expressive cues for the listener. There are other ways with other contemporary composers whom I admire when they are not obsessed with experimentalist temptations and when they remain in love with the voice (there are few) and faithful to the expressive vocation of the "opera" genre. So I rarely enjoy contemporary operas because, as I once replied to another journalist, "I am not interested in 'interesting' music." I was recently moved by an opera by George Benjamin, and more recently by your opera "El Público".
"I know, appreciate and admire Mauricio Sotelo as an internationally recognized composer with a very personal style. He is endowed with a brilliant and sovereign metier in all compositional genres and a universal art-philosophical background. I've been experiencing him since I've known him, with all his structuralist character, as it is ensured not least by his training with Luigi Nono, at the same time stylistically open, definitely not denying his Iberian landscape roots and instead constantly introducing them imaginatively."
When a few years ago I met Mauricio Sotelo, he was just about to familiarize himself with Liszt's Sonata. This not only led to a friendship but also induced the idea of writing a work that would relate both to the Sonata and to our encounter. In the last decades, a number of musical works have emerged that are composed interpretations of older ones. We can regard them as a counter-position to historicising performances that have established themselves in many concert halls. According to Hans Zender, himself a contributor to this new species, the composer "is creator. But he is these days also an interpreter of the past to which he relates - whether seeking to surmount it, or to carry on." Sotelo's work is a confrontation of this kind, an argument dealing with the shape and the material of Liszt's Sonata that has resulted in something personal and spectacular.
Your music shows that twentieth-century anti-tonal academic standards can be shattered, just as the atonal music of the last century shattered nineteenth-century tonal norms. Few operas are successful because there is an insurmountable contradiction between the demands of singing and the straitjacket of standards of the second half of the twentieth century. You use flamenco as a crutch to not cut your music from any popular roots nor any expressive cues for the listener. There are other ways with other contemporary composers whom I admire when they are not obsessed with experimentalist temptations and when they remain in love with the voice (there are few) and faithful to the expressive vocation of the "opera" genre. So I rarely enjoy contemporary operas because, as I once replied to another journalist, "I am not interested in 'interesting' music." I was recently moved by an opera by George Benjamin, and more recently by your opera "El Público".