EXHIBITION | Emili Pujol, an internationally renowned musician from Les Garrigues

  • The Museum of Lleida presents the exhibition “Emili Pujol, an internationally renowned musician from Les Garrigues”, which can be seen in the Cor space between September 18, 2024 and January 19, 2025. The exhibition, curated by Maria Ribera, aims to vindicate the figure of Emili Pujol, musician, teacher, writer and composer, and his connection with Ponent, where he was born and returned after achieving great international success.

  • The exhibition shows seventeen original objects, all of them from the Emili Pujol Legacy, which the musician donated to the city of Lleida and which are part of the collection of the Institut d’Estudis Ilerdencs. Some of these objects have been deposited for years in the Museu de Lleida, and some of them are shown in this exhibition, such as, for example, the famous Torres guitar.

Museu de Lleida | September 18, 2024 | 12:10 p.m.


On the occasion of the exhibition, a booklet has been published with texts by the exhibition curator, the guitarist and doctor in art history, Maria Ribera Gibal, who reviews the musician’s biography; by Belén Estival, performer and doctoral student at the University of La Rioja, on the concert life of Emili Pujol with the guitars and violets preserved in the Museum of Lleida; and by Joan Pellisa, luthier and researcher in organology, who talks about the instruments of Emili Pujol in the collection of the Museu de Lleida. Apart from the introductory texts by the director of the museum, Clara Arbués Garcia, and the director of the Institut d’Estudis Ilerdencs, Andreu Vázquez Romero, there is also a section dedicated to the bibliography and the pieces exhibited in the exhibition.

The exhibition features an unpublished eight-minute film, made up of another full film and a fragment of a second, containing images of the tribute that Emili Pujol received in 1967 in his village of La Granadella, and also of the musician with his second wife using an oil press that was in the Janet farmhouse.

Programme of activities

Around the exhibition, the Museu de Lleida has organised a programme of activities that includes concerts, conferences and a workshop.

As for the concerts, the first of them will take place on October 15, by the American Hopkinson Smith, who attended Emili Pujol’s summer courses in Cervera between 1970 and 1973, and who will perform English music from the Elizabethan period, with his Renaissance lute. The guitarist from Lleida Carles Trepat will perform on November 15, with a repertoire of works by Emili Pujol himself and by prominent names from the Catalan guitar school. On November 16 there will be a Workshop-Session with Carles Trepat, aimed at guitar students from the music schools of Lleida. Finally, the Guitar Group of the Orfeó Lleidatà Music School, directed by Professor Mario Peña y Lillo, will perform on December 14, presenting a varied selection of their repertoire.

Two conferences will talk about the organological collection of Emili Pujol at the Museum of Lleida, on December 4, by the luthier and researcher Joan Pellisa; and from the organological fund of Emili Pujol at the Institut d’Estudis Ilerdencs, on January 15, by the musician and researcher, Pau Capdevila.


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