Temps de matinada

“A simple miniature of finest musical intuition”. This is how the musical critics of 1948 define the work “Temps de matinada”, written by the pianist and composer Leonora Milà at the age of six. It is a short piece, which was originally written for piano, and which Eduard Toldrà orchestrated to be premiered by the former Orquestra Municipal de Barcelona in a concert that took place on September 28th of 1948 at the Vilanova i la Geltrú Teatre Bosc. The orchestra, under the baton of Toldrà himself, concluded the concert program, which amongst other also included works by Mozart, Wagner, Turina and Grieg, with “Temps de matinada”, which achieved great success. It is not by accident that Toldrà orchestrated this work by Leonora Milà. Josep Milà, father of the pianist, was an outstanding violoncellist of the Pau Casals Orchestra and, later on, of the Gran Teatre del Liceu orchestra. Eduard Toldrà and Josep Milà knew each other; both were from Vilanova and had been living as neighbours for many years in Caputxins Street. So Josep Milà got in touch with Toldrà to show him what his daughter, at the age of only six, had written after having been sitting in front of the piano for hours. Toldrà assured Milà of the great beauty of the score and his intention to orchestrate it in order to premiere it at the concert he would conduct at the formerly Teatre Bosc.

 

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