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built in 1908 for the Orfeo Català choral group (it’s still privately owned) and
made an immediate statement of nationalistic intent. Its bare brick structure is
smothered in tiles and mosaics, typical of
modernisme
, with the highly elaborate
facade resting on three great columns, like elephant’s legs.The corner sculpture,
by Miquel Blay, represents Catalan popular song, its allegorical figures protected
by a strident Sant Jordi. There’s little restraint inside either, as Domènech i
Montaner strove to make his concert hall a veritable “box of light”, achieved by
a mighty bulbous stained-glass skylight capping the second-storey auditorium
– contemporary critics claimed it to be an engineering impossibility. Sculptures
of the Muses ring the main stage, peering down on the performers, while
allegorical decoration is everywhere, from the sculpted red and white roses in
the colours of the Catalan flag to the representations of music and nature in the
glistening stained glass.
Successive extensions and interior remodelling have opened up the original
site – the
Petit Palau
offers a smaller auditorium space, while to the side an
enveloping glass facade provides the main public access to the box office,
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