Mompou is best known as a miniaturist, writing short, relatively improvisatory music, often described as “delicate” or “intimate”. His principal influences were French impressionism, Erik Satie and Gabriel Fauré, resulting in a style in which musical development is minimized and expression is concentrated into very small forms.
Mompou
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Pianist and Luso-American composer born in Lisbon, discovered the piano at 17 years old and started very soon working on his own compositions. The love he felt for the music of Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel and Federico Mompou, led him to begin a journey where he tries to find his […]
