{"id":164,"date":"2026-10-01T11:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T09:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/musica-experiencia-xviii\/mison\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T12:40:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T10:40:39","slug":"mison","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/musica-experiencia-xviii\/en\/mison\/","title":{"rendered":"Mis\u00f3n"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The work of the Matar\u00f3-born musician Llu\u00eds Mis\u00f3n (1727\u20131766)<\/strong> constitutes a privileged field of study for exploring the relationships between music, body, emotions and identities in the eighteenth century. The tercentenary of his birth, in 2027, offers an opportunity to recover his figure and deepen our understanding of his output from new historiographical perspectives, situating it within the musical and cultural transformations of his time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mis\u00f3n, Tonadilla de los negros, 1761 (Biblioteca Hist\u00f3rica Municipal de Madrid, Mus 101-10)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Born in Matar\u00f3, the son of a French military officer and a mother connected to the theatrical world, Mis\u00f3n developed much of his professional career in Madrid, where he distinguished himself as a wind instrumentalist and composer. His activity was connected to the Royal Chapel and the Royal Sites, as well as to aristocratic circles such as the House of Alba and the Madrid theatrical world, where he played a significant role in the development of the tonadilla<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His contribution to this genre was recognised by his contemporaries and by subsequent generations. An article published in the Memorial Literario<\/em> in 1787, entitled \u00abOrigen y progresos de las tonadillas que se cantan en los Coliseos de esta Corte\u00bb, attributed a pioneering role to him, stating that in 1757 he had opened a \u00abnuevo camino a las canciones del Teatro\u00bb with a duet composition that became a model for later tonadillas<\/em>. The previous year, Luis Ca\u00f1uelo, in the journal El Censor<\/em>, highlighted some of his tonadillas<\/em> for possessing \u00absentimientos y lo que se llama sistema\u00bb, a particularly suggestive testimony regarding the assessment of his expressiveness and musical coherence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His instrumental output, particularly his sonatas, also constitutes a significant part of his legacy. Recent discoveries of new sonatas have contributed to a reassessment of his work and to growing interest in his music, which is progressively being incorporated into concert repertoires. This repertoire also opens up new avenues for exploring eighteenth-century performance practices and expressive models, as well as the relationships between instrumental music and the bodily dimension of performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Within the framework of the project Music and Experience in the Eighteenth Century<\/em>, the study of Mis\u00f3n allows us not only to recover the career of a significant composer, but also to investigate how his music was created, performed, perceived and valued, and what it reveals about musical experiences in the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Basic bibliography<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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  • Pessarrodona, Aur\u00e8lia and Germ\u00e1n Labrador (eds.) (2020). Estudios en torno a Luis Mis\u00f3n<\/em>. Estudios Musicales del Clasicismo, 5. Sant Cugat del Vall\u00e8s: Arpegio. A key collective monograph on Mis\u00f3n, with studies on his biography, reception, musical output and the cataloguing of his work.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • D\u00edez-Canedo Flores, Mar\u00eda (2007). \u00abLa flauta travesera en las dos orillas. Una sonata de flauta de Luis Mis\u00f3n en M\u00e9xico\u00bb. Cuadernos de M\u00fasica Iberoamericana<\/em>, 14, 41\u201372. This study examines a Mis\u00f3n sonata preserved in a Mexican manuscript and provides biographical and contextual information on the circulation of his music.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Pessarrodona, Aur\u00e8lia (critical study and edition) (2008). Manuel Pla, Lluis Misson, Pau Esteve, Jacinto Valledor: La \u00abtonadilla\u00bb esc\u00e8nica i Catalunya<\/em>. Barcelona: Trit\u00f3. A useful reference for situating Mis\u00f3n within the context of the tonadilla<\/em> and its relationship with Catalonia.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u00c1lvarez-Villamil, Mar\u00eda and Mar\u00eda D\u00edez-Canedo Flores (critical eds.) (2023). Sonatas y tr\u00edos de Luis Mis\u00f3n (1727\u20131766), para flauta, viol\u00edn y bajo<\/em>. Madrid: ICCMU, M\u00fasica Hispana series. A musical edition providing direct access to part of his instrumental output.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

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