Jesús Bal y Gay (en el centro) con su familia. A su derecha, Concepción e Isabel Gay Núñez (madre y tía de Jesús); detrás, su hermano Luis; a su izquierda, su padre, Jesús Bal Roca, y su hermana Carmen, Lugo, hacia 1909.
Jesús Bal y Gay, hacia 1917
Ronsel, núm. 1, Lugo, mayo de 1924
el pueblo gallego
Publica «O momento actual da música galega» en el número 29 de la revista Nós
Jesús Bal y Gay y Rosita García Ascot, hacia 1931
Treinta canciones de Lope de Vega, ed. de Jesús Bal y Gay, número extraordinario de la revista Residencia en homenaje a Lope de Vega, Madrid, 1935
Cambridge
Rosita García Ascot fotografiada por Jesús Bal y Gay, hacia 1938

1905  

He was born in Lugo on June 23


1914

He studied piano with Mercedes Cornide and María Mota


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17 - 1921

He studied secondary school at the General Technical Institute, Lugo. He took the piano entry exam at the Academy of Music of Madrid in 1919. He graduated from high school on September 20, 1921


1922
He began his studies of Engineering in Madrid. He lived on No.10-12 Relatores St

1924

He founded with Álvaro Gil, Luis Pimentel, and Evaristo Correa Calderón the periodical Ronsel and published “Hacia el ballet gallego” in the periodical’s publishing house. He began studying Medicine at the University of Madrid


19
25

He moved to live in the Residencia de Estudiantes and began collaborating as a columnist in Vigo’s El Pueblo Gallego, an activity that he maintained until 1932


1926

He published O momento actual da música galega in the periodical Nós (no. 29)


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927
He enrolled in the Seminario de Estudios Gallegos and began his military service in Santiago

1928
He returned to Madrid after completing his military service and joined the Center for Historical Studies

1930
He wrote “Seis pezas para Canto e piano encol de verbas de Amado Carballo,” and the “Suite para orquesta”


1933
He married Rosita García Ascot. He published “O folklore musical de Melide” in Terra de Melide, published by the Seminario de Estudios Gallegos in Nós publishing house

1935
He published Treinta canciones de Lope de Vega, in the special issue of the periodical Residencia dedicated to Lope. J. B. Trend invited him to Cambridge University, where he worked as a lector of Spanish until 1938

1936
Higinio Anglés invited him to participate in the congress of the International Society of Musicology (SIM) held in Barcelona

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8
Rosita traveled to Paris to study with Nadia Boulanger. Jesús Bal went to Mexico, stopping in New York. In Mexico, he worked as a researcher at the Casa de España

 

 

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