Francisco Llácer Pla

Francisco Llácer Pla (Valencia, 1918 - Valencia, 2002) was a Spanish composer and choral conductor. He was one of the first Valencian composers who assimilated the postwar avantgarde approaches, combining it with lyricism and echoes of the Valencian folklore. Tomás Marco wrote: Llácer Pla offers a new, suggestive vision of a form of musical nationalism from a new, progressive perspective. A professor at the Valencia Conservatory, several of his progressive works are based in his harmonic investigations, such as his concept of heptafonism and his theory of the "balanced chord", based on the double sense of the sonorous bodies' resonance.

On October 7, 2005 he was named Valencia's favorite son.

Quotes

• I work on a preliminary design of the material, but not just at an harmonic level. On the base of the dodecaphonic series I first construct a linear design, which usually has consequences in the verticality of the music, since my balanced chords are usually intimately bounded with the linear design. Sometimes two balanced chords generate the dodecaphonic range which I use as a sonorous background from where I extract the thematic material. I believe that maybe, in my preconscious, though in an unclear way, there's always an explorative eagerness."

Incomplete list of works

• 1952 - Dos lieder amatorios.
• 1953 - Campanar de Benigànim, for women's choir.
• 1954 - Popular tryptique for children's choir.
• 1954 - Prelude for piano.
• 1954 - El bosque de Opta, for piano and orchestra.
• 1955 - Piano Sonata.
• 1956 - Primavera en hivern.
• 1956 - Noctámbulo, for piano, op.8.
• 1956 - Rondó mirmidón for orchestra.
• 1957 - Tres Lieder y una coplilla for soprano and orchestra.
• 1959 - Al bon Déu, for children's choir.
• 1959 - Aguafuertes de una novela, symphonic suite.
• 1960 - Cançoneta dels innocents, for children's choir and organ.
• 1960 - Piano Sonatina.
• 1961 - Salida for organ.
• 1962 - Zoco esclavo y marcha oriental, for band.
• 1962 - Sincrección-Divertimento for string orchestra.
• 1963 - Pentámero for harp.
• 1964 - Inventions for six instruments.
• 1964 - Himno de la enfermera, for women's choir and orchestra.
• 1966 - Misa puericia, for children choir and organ.
• 1966 - Nou cançons per a la intimitat, for soprano, flute, clarinet, bassoon and piano.
• 1969 - Heptafonique ballade for string orchestra.
• 1970 - Ciclos for violin and piano.
• 1971 - Himne del jardiner, for men's choir and band.
• 1972 - Cançó per a la intimitat, for violin and piano.
• 1972 - Lamentació de Tirant lo Blanc, for choir.
• 1973 - Tres ratlles curtes, for children's choir.
• 1974 - Migraciones, for soprano and orchestra.
• 1974 - Motete para el día sexto, for string quartet.
• 1975 - Ajonetes, for children's choir.
• 1977 - Episodios concertantes for guitar, two string quartets and percussion.
• 1977 - Liturgia I, for organ.
• 1977 - Loors de la Santísima Creu, for soprano and piano.
• 1978 - Amén de Folies, for orchestra.
• 1979 - Huellas (Crono-frase sobra Miguel Hernández), for cello and piano, op.36
• 1980 - La otra trova Heptafónica, for cello and piano, op.39.
• 1981 - Dístico percutiente for piano, op.37.
• 1981 - Liturgia II, for wind quintet.
• 1984 - Piano Concerto.
• 1985 - Tenebrae, for flute and piano.
• 1986 - Versus in conmemoratione Ioannis Cabanilles for organ
• 1986 - Espacios sugerentes for piano.
• 1987 - Ricercare concertante for two pianos and orchestra.
• 1987 - Textura y tropos for flute and piano
• 1988 - Plurívoco for piano.
• 1990 - Te Deum.
• 1990 - Come Ouverture alla italiana for guitar.
• 199? - Jucunde et Pacificus for piano.
• 199? - Relatando imágenes for horn and piano, op.58
• 1994 - Breve Sonata mudante for piano, op.62
• 1996 - Music por prepared clavecin, by quarter tones, op.63
• 199? - Elegía a una mirada for violin and cello, op.64
• 199? - Hacia el anochecer for violin and counterbass, op.65
• 199? - Pavesa Célica for piano, op.66
•  ? - Poetizando lo cotidiano for counterbass, op.70
• 2001 - Arquitecturas del silencio for viola and double bass, op.71