Concordio

Concordio Gelabert Alart

Barcelona , 1 September 1882
Barcelona , 7 April 1944

Composer and Teacher

Composer, music critic, pedagogue and conductor

He studied composition under Antoni Nicolau and violin under Domènec Sánchez i Deyà at the Escola Municipal de Música de Barcelona. He was a solfeggio teacher of the same school for twenty years, until he was appointed artistic director of the Gramophone record company in Barcelona. He also conducted the orchestra of the same company.

He wrote the essay Teoria elemental de la música: per a orfeons i escoles catalanes, and also some zarzuelas including El desterrado; Mundo, demonio y carne (1902) and El huertecillo (1917), premiered at Teatre Nou. He was a music critic for the publication El Diluvio, editor-in-chief of the magazine Música published in Barcelona between 1915 and 1916, and collaborated with Ràdio Associació de Catalunya. Gelabert also took part in the foundation of the Wagnerian Association of Barcelona.