Cipriano Martínez Rücker - Jardines de la Agricultura, Córdoba, Spain
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Marble bust of Cipriano Martínez Rücker (1861-1924), a Spanish composer and musician, who was considered one of the most important in Spanish romanticism authors. The bust is located since 1925 in one of Córdoba's parks-Jardines de la Agricultura
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Location: Andalucía, Spain
Date Posted: 12/04/2021
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White marble bust of a musician and composer, one of the great figures of the romanticism style, Cipriano Martínez Rücker (1861-1924) who was born in Cordoba. Its bust placed in one of Córdoba's parks-Jardines de la Agricultura is the work of a Spanish sculptor Enrique Moreno Rodríguez (1900 - 1936). The bust is placed on about 2 meters high black marble pedestal.
Biography
Cipriano Martínez Rücker ( Córdoba , December 20, 1861 - July 16, 1924), was a Spanish musician and composer.
As a composer, he is considered one of the most important in Spanish romanticism , along with the polyphonist Infantas and the Malaga-born Eduardo Ocón (1833-1901). As a theoretician, he founded the Professional Conservatory of Music , then Provincial Conservatory , of which he was director and professor of harmony and composition, as well as a member of the royal academies of Córdoba and Seville.
Martínez Rücker's work is impregnated with elements typical of Andalusian music, although it should not for this reason be considered as typically nationalist. It shares with that of Eduardo Lucena the simplicity and naturalness of melodism, far from all rhetoric or artifice, and harmonic processes that also come from the classical-romantic tradition, far removed from the new trends that are beginning to emerge in European music.
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