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First name: Pere
Last name: Tintorer i Sagarra
Dates: 1814-1891
Category: Quartet
Nationality: Spanish
Opus name: Pianoquartet no 1 Un souvenir de Beethoven
Publisher: Silvertrust
Peculiarities: in the library of the Cobett Association: www.cobbett.com Journal autumn 2007 p.14
Information: Tintorer was born in Palma de Mallorca in 1814. He was the son of Catalan parents who left Barcelona when Napoleon invaded Spain. He was baptized in the parish of Saint Nicolas with the full name of Pedro Agustin Nicolas Tintorer y Segarra, which tells us that his mother´s name was Segarra. When he was around seven years old, and the hostilities with France were over, his family moved back to Barcelona, where he began in 1822 to study piano with maestro Vilanova at the Cathedral and sang as a boy soprano there from 1824 . He also studied harmony and composition, and in 1832 entered the Conservatory, where among others were his teachers were the renowned Carnicer and Pedro Albeniz. Then in 1834 he moved to Paris to take classes from Zimmerman until moving in 1836 to Lyon where he took daily lessons with Liszt for a year, according to his biographer, and then stayed on for 13 years more as a teacher in the Lyon Music School. He claimed to have taught 16 hours a day, explaining why he left so little music: 2 masses for solo voices, mixed choir, and orchestra (lost); a Stabat Mater for the same combination (lost); a Te Deum for choir and orchestra; other religious music. For instruments: 2 symphonies (lost); a piano trio, a Cuartetino for violin, viola, cello and piano; 3 piano quartets (2 lost), a set of etudes for piano, some characteristic pieces for piano. The Empress Eugenie awarded him a silver medal for having written one of the above masses in 1853, which was sung in the church of San Felip