La recuperación de los compositores de la Generación de la República durante la Transición en España

Abstract

The objective of this work is to analyze the way in which during the transition process in Spain, in the transition from the dictatorship of Francisco Franco to the monarchy of Juan Carlos I, the recovery of the work of the repressed composers was developed or exiled by the Franco regime as a way to promote the idea of change and the sensation of a return to political normality interrupted by the military coup that ended the Second Republic. The generation of creators who are going to pay attention in this article are Rosa García Ascot, Ernesto Halftter, Rodolfo Halffter, Julian Bautista, Salvador Bacarisse, Gustavo Pittaluga, Fernando Remacha and Juan José Mantecón. That is, the members of the Group of Eight. The analysis has been developed with the support of primary sources, fundamentally hemerographic, that account for the cultural activity developed in the period that has focused the attention of this research and that has offered clues about the growing presence of these authors in concerts, recordings, acts of homage and exhibitions. Likewise, with the use of secondary sources, fundamentally the publications in which these composers have been studied and that suppose the state of the subject matter of study. The analysis has shown the particular attention given to these authors in cultural activities developed in the Transition, a novelty with respect to the previous period, which gave priority to the nationalist composers of the final years of the nineteenth century and the first third of the XX.