Catálogo de Cinespañol

Antonio Soler (1729-1783) es uno de los compositores más importantes de la historia de la música española y sin embargo se sabe muy poco de él. La pianista Rosa Torres-Pardo, acompañada por los mejores intérpretes, estudiosos y bailarines, noslleva deviaje por la obra de este fraile clavenicista que compuso mucho más que música religiosa.

Antonio Soler was the most important composer of Spanish music in the 18th Century. This documentary film introduces us to the life and work of Soler who lived as a monk in the Escorial Monastery. The story is set forth by musical historians andbysomeof the most important Spanish contemporary interpreters of Soler´s work. These contemporary musicians, some of the mtaking exquisite care with Soler´s original scores, some of them breaking loose in flights of fancy, all pay tribute to a man who,fromhis cold cell in El Escorial, gave the world luminous examples of music composed in the best Spanish tradition.