Emili Salut i Payà (November 13, 1918 - May 16, 1982) was a Catalan trumpeter and composer.
Emili Salut i Payà was born in Barcelona.
Emili Salut attended the Municipal School of Barcelona, where he studied violin with the teachers Sainz de la Maza and Costa and piano with Joseph Climent. But his actual passion was composition. Later, he took a great interest in the trumpet, so he started to attend lessons with Lluís Rovira and he became part of different ensembles in the Avenue of Parallel until 1936, when the Spanish Civil War broke out.
In 1939, he went to the USSR, where he studied to become an pilot. Between 1940 and 1941, he was a musician of the Mijail Lipski Orchestra in Moscow. In 1941, when the German troops entered the Russian territories, because of the World War II, he was locked up for eight years in different prisons and concentration camps. When he was released, in 1948, he continued with his music studies.
He married his first wife, Isida Filippova and then, in 1951, their daughters Francesca and Violeta were born.
It was not until 1957 that he could return to Spain. There, he lived in Madrid and later in Barcelona. He worked at the Radio Nacional de España and then as a Russian teacher at the Assimil Academy.
Collection of six Cànons a 4 and 2 voices, Op. 8 (1953 - 1976), for stringsGuerras civiles de Granada, Op. 13 (1957), for violin and pianoSolo de concierto, for voice, violin and pianoVoice and piano
Agraint un clavell (1982)Invierno (1946), written in the concentration campRecuerdos, memories from the concentration campCanone, Op. 53 (1980)Elegie, Op. 36 (1940)Estudi núm. 1: Satànic (1953)Preludio, Op. 53 (1976)Recoup, Op. 35 (1970)Romanza (1947)Sonata núm. 1 (1947)12 Valsos per a piano, Op. 15 (1945 - 1971)Fugueta, d'introducció i comiat per a una cerimònia nupcial, Op. 25Canción Yalta, Op. 9, Russian textEl cargol, Op. 1 (1978)Els brivalls del barri, Op. 3 (1965), sardana for choir and cobla (the traditional music ensemble of Catalonia)El cargol, Op. 3 (1979), for choir and coblaEn Pere Gallarí, Op. 3 (1976), for choir and coblaUn pont de cobre l'altre, Op. 3 (1963), for choir and coblaRemei, Op. 3 (1962), for choir and coblaLa vall, Op. 3 (1965), for choir and coblaIntroducció i comiat per a una cerimònia nupcial, Op. 25 (1963)Kalinka, Op. 48Retaule nadalench, Op. 39 (1962)Romanza, Op. 49 (1962)Rondó per al tema de Krasnii sarafan, Op. 47Santa Eulària, esbós poemàtich (1976)Suite amussette, Op. 35Suite Tártara núm. 3 (1953)Tonadilla y Copla, Op. 42 (1969), dedicated to Russian people. The location of this work is unknownBand
Retaule nadalench, Op. 39 (1962)El Circo, suite for symphony orchestraSuite lirique, Op. 11Werther, Op. 16 (1950 - 1978)Jota aragonesa, of Glimka, instrumentated for band (1962)Ave Maria, of Franz Schubert, instrumentated for soloist, choir and orchestraAbschor liedAufwiedersehenFoxbrush, foxtrot (1947)StormboundFoxtrotGlaspliter, intermezzoIch will das immer Frühling sein sollA little house on Michigan SeaMutter liebeSombrero cordobés (1947)Love is a many-splendored thing, of Sammy Fain, arranged for trumpetLa sombra de tu sonrisa, of J. Mandel i P. Webster, arranged for trumpetBlue Skies, arranged for piano