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María Teresa Oller

María Teresa Oller (1920 – 2 September 2018) was a Spanish composer and folklorist of the Valencian Community. Since the 1950s, she carried out extensive fieldwork to collect traditional Valencian

María Teresa Oller (1920 – 2 September 2018) was a Spanish composer and folklorist of the Valencian Community. Since the 1950s, she carried out extensive fieldwork to collect traditional Valencian music, highlight it, and make it known in numerous publications. Oller was a member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos de Valencia. Biography María Teresa Oller Benlloch was born in Valencia in 1920. She studied at the and obtained the “Extraordinary Prize” in the disciplines of piano and composition. Manuel Palau was her teacher in composition, choir and orchestra conducting, musicology, and music pedagogy, and she became a favorite disciple. She followed Palau’s advice and furthered her music studies with Professor Ernet Jarnack, with the Walker Wagenheim Orchestra and with the choral specialist, Rafael Benedito. In 1954, she obtained a grant from the to perfect her composition studies. Highlights of her early works include the research carried out in the Vall d’Albaida region where Oller visited all the towns while collecting songs such as the fandango of El Palomar or the dances of Bèlgida. She also did extensive work in the Ribera Alta comarca documenting the music of

Era
Post-War
Lived
1920–2018
From
Spain
Born in
Valencia · died Valencia
Known as
composer, folklorist

Contemporaries

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