What is the music? Why can it move me? Do I need special training to understand it and enjoy it? What are the keys to effectively lead an orchestra? How do you manage talent? How do you get the greatness necessary to play a Beethoven symphony?
These are some of the many questions that Pirfano Inigo answered in this book. As entrepreneur, conductor and philosopher, the author shows us different sides of one of the realities that have fascinated men of all time.
Musical intelligence is not only an extraordinary book about music but it also offers plenty of fresh and surprising perfectly applicable ideas to other human realities: the emotional life and relationships, the ability for management and leadership development and spiritual aspects of one's inner riches... surely this book will open the reader unsuspected horizons.
Inigo Pirfano studied Philosophy at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Ochestral conducting, Choir and Opera in Austria and Germany, with directors such as Karl Kamper, Sir Colin Davis, Karl-Heinz and Kurt Masur Bloemeke.
He has appeared as a guest director on some of the world's most important theaters. For his work as founder and conductor of the Academic Orchestra of Madrid, he received the Young Leadership Award 2011 of Rafael del Pino Foundation. As a composer, he was nominated, along with Lalo Schifrin, for the Award to the Best Music Cinema Writers Circle.
He has published an essay on aesthetics (Ebrietas. The Power of Beauty, Encounter, 2012) and is a regular speaker at some of the most important forums of Spain, as the Fundación Telefónica, IESE Business School or the Rafael del Pino Foundation.
