Jos,

Antonio
[Martnez
Palacios, Antonio Jos]
(b Burgos, 12 Dec 1902; d Estpar, 8 Oct 1936). Spanish
composer and conductor. He studied with the organists Julin
Garca Blanco and Jos Mara Beobide Goiburu in Burgos. In 1920
the regional government of Burgos awarded him a scholarship to
further his studies at the Madrid Conservatory for four years. He
supplemented his income by conducting zarzuelas at the Teatro de
la Latina and the Teatro Apolo, and by music copying. He worked
as a music teacher at a Jesuit school in Miraflores de El Palo,
Mlaga (19259), and returned to Burgos in 1929 to conduct the
revived choral society Orfen Burgals.
The final period of his life was dominated by his commitment to
Burgos and its people. He was awarded the National Music Prize
for his collections of folksongs from Burgos (1932) and was invited
to present a paper on this subject at the Third Congress of the IMS
(Barcelona, 1936). In the early days of the Civil War he was
arrested by Falangists and imprisoned in Burgos. On 8 October
1936 he was driven to the nearby town of Estpar and shot,
accused of being a Republican spy and Jewish sympathizer, and of
inciting the people to revolt.
Antonio Jos's love of the folksong of his native region penetrated
his entire output, from the series of Danzas burgalesas and the
Sonata castellana for piano (which formed the basis for his
Sinfona castellana) to later choral and vocal works such as the
Cinco coros castellanos and the Cuatro canciones populares
burgalesas, and even his unfinished opera El mozo de mulas.
Many of his works are based on literal quotations of popular
melodies taken from Federico Olmeda's Cancionero de Burgos
(1902) or on folksongs collected by the composer himself. Ravel is
said to have referred to him as potentially the greatest Spanish
composer of the 20th century.
WORKS
(selective list)

Stage: La antesala de la gloria (sainete, A.G. Arbeo and E. Marceu), 1921; La

memoria de Doctor Coronado (operetta), 19234; Minatchi (La aurora de un reino)
(lyric drama), 1925; El mozo de mulas (op, 3, M.F. Fernndez Nez and L.
Mateo), 1927, unfinished [completed by A. Yage]; Marcha para soldados de
plomo (ballet, E. de Ontan), pf, orch, 1929 [completed by A. Yage]
Orch: Alla Haydn, 1923; Sinfona castellana, 1923; Lamentacin segunda, 1927;
Evocaciones no.2, 1928; Suite ingenua, pf, str, 1928; Preludio y danza popular,
1934
Vocal: Ave Mara, 4 solo vv, org, 1917; Ave maris stella, 1v, org, 1917; Tantum
ergo, 2 solo vv, org, 1917; Dulce cayado, 1v, chorus, org, 1918; Letana lauretana,
1v, chorus, org, 1920; Mass, D, solo vv, orch/org, 1920; Himno de la Asociacin de

antiguos alumnos de San Antn, chorus, pf, 1922; Villancico, 1v, 5vv, org, 1923;
Himno escolar, chorus, orch, 1924; La primavera, 1v, pf, 1924; Tota pulchra, T, B,
org, 1924; Un suspiro de amor, 1v, pf, 1925; Elega, T, org, 1926; A Beobide,
chorus, org, 1926; A San Luis Gonzaga, 1v, chorus, org, 1926; 10 canciones
burgalesas, 1926; Inmaculada, chorus, pf, 1927; Faro de amor (Gaspar G.
Pintado), 1v, chorus, org, 1929; Ave Mara, lv, org, 1929; 4 canciones populares
burgalesas, SATB, 1929; 3 cantigas de Alfonso X, 1v/chorus, pf, ?1929; Himno a
Castilla, SATB, 1929; 5 coros castellanos, chorus, 192932; El divino Rey
abandonado, 1v, org, 1930; El molinero (Cancin burgalesa), S, orch/pf, 1932;
Coleccin de cantos populares burgaleses, 1932; Romance de rosa fresca,
SATB, ?1933; Himno al Valle de Valdivielso (G.G. Pintado), chorus, pf, 1933
Chbr and solo inst: Sonata, G, pf, 1917; Vals, A, pf, 1917; Variaciones, pf, 1918; El
canto de dolor, pf, 1918; Ecos taurinos, pf/band, 1919; Hojas sueltas nos.1 and 2,
pf, 1919; Danza de concierto, vn, pf/band, 1919; Preludio no.1, E , pf, 1920;
Preludio no.2, G, pf/sextet, 1920; Danza de bufones, pf, 1920; Nocturno (Paisaje),
pf, 1920; Sonata castellana, pf, 192022; Tiempo de tarantela, pf, 1921; Alla
Haydn, pf, 1922; Danza burgalesa no.1, pf, 1922; El paso de la galante
estudiantina, pf, 1922; La mueca rota, pf, 1922; Cancin escolar, pf, 1922; La
case del gigante, pf, 1923; Danza burgalesa no.2, pf, 1923; Danza burgalesa no.3,
pf, 1923; Sonata no.3 (Alla Clsica), pf, 1924; Sonata no.4 (Poema de la juventud),
pf, 1924; Evocaciones (Cuadros de danza campesina), pf, 1925; Sonata gallega,
pf, 1926; Romancillo infantil, gui, 19278; Improvisacin, org, 1928; Danza
burgalesa no.4, pf, 1928; Sonata, gui, 1933
Arrs. for chorus
BIBLIOGRAPHY
V. Paisn Serrano: Silueta artistica: Antonio Jos, Ritmo, no.92
(1934), 56
S. Rodrguez Santerbs: En busca de un msico perdido:
Antonio Jos, Triunfo, no.482 (1971), 249
M.A. Palacios Garoz: Antonio Jos: Sinfonia castellana, con
preludio y cuatro tiempos, Ritmo, no.496 (1979), 519
J. Barriuso Gutirrez et al.: Antonio Jos: msico de Castilla
(Madrid, 1980)
M.A. Palacios Garoz: Lo cervantino y lo popular en la pera
indita de Antonio Jos El mozo de mulas, Revista de
folklore, xli (1982), 14757
J. Parra: La obra pianistica de Antonio Jos, Ritmo, no.572
(1986), 50
M.A. Palacios Garoz: Antonio Jos, el compositor de Castilla,
Anuario de Castilla y Lon (1993), 40714
YOLANDA ACKER