La inspiración que no cesaRomán Alís Flores, caminos de un compositor

Abstract

The aim of this doctoral thesis is to perform a descriptive analytical study about Majorcan composer Roman Alís Flores’ life (1931-2006) and work; a figure that, although had gained some recognition and respect as well as the audience’s applause thanks to his music, has been almost forgotten due to his death in 2006. To this extent, this thesis attempts to redress the great injustice that his work’s absence implies in current orchestras’ music stands. My decision to make this doctoral thesis was motivated by several goals. On the one hand, I focus the present dissertation on leading to public knowledge his interesting life whose different circumstances, mainly economic activities, will lead him to travel around almost the national territory. Other aims are to consider the relevance of his writings, lectures, comments, and something unpublished until this time: his role as a poet; to check his many diverse interviews, and press reviews; to carry out the final catalogue of his works (there are two more but incomplete catalogues), and most of all to leave a written testimony about his entire life, and his music in order to provide a reference to future researchers interested in this issue. The methodology used to accomplish and finish the work has been based on two basic points: the interviews the composer granted me over the last four years of his life, and the assorted files and libraries that several entities, which will emerge in this thesis (personal archive of Román Alís, SGAE, Fundación Juan March, ONE, RTVE, Orquesta Bética de Sevilla, Orquesta Filarmónica de Sevilla, Biblioteca Nacional, different conservatories…), put very kindly at my disposal. I also emphasize what this great bibliographic contribution meant to me and the easiness and kindness the Library of the Geography and History Faculty of Universidad Complutense de Madrid always provided me, just as the abundance of many sources related to the music world they have in their collection...