Semblanza biográfica, criterios pedagógicos y aproximación al pianismo de Javier Jiménez Delgado (1849-1910)

Abstract

Together with other nineteenth-century musicians, the composer, pianist and teacher Javier Jiménez Delgado (1849-1910) contributed to the consolidation of the Spanish nationalist piano school. A pupil of Manuel Mendizábal, he combined composing for the stage with keyboard music, some of the most noteworthy features of which being the assimilation of rhythmic, melodic and harmonic elements inspired by folklore and flamenco in intimate Romantic genres, Central-European and Spanish dances, as well as the predominance of secondary dominants and free contrapuntal textures with the superimposition of different dynamics, forms of attack and percussion using false relations, which leads to chromatic voice leading through contrary motion.

This article, the first musicological study of Jiménez Delgado, discusses his academic-artistic career and the teaching methods he employed at the Conservatorio de Madrid, catalogues his works and introduces the different formulas of composition found in his output for the instrument.