Pere Rabassa
Pere Rabassa (Catalan pronunciation: ['peɾə rə'βasə]; (Spanish: Pedro Rabassa) (Barcelona 1683 - Seville, 12 December 1767) was a Catalan composer and musicologist.
Also recorded as Pedro de Rabassa
Pere Rabassa
- Born
- 1683
- Died
- 1767
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Pere Rabassa (Catalan pronunciation: ['peɾə rə'βasə]; (Spanish: Pedro Rabassa) (Barcelona 1683 - Seville, 12 December 1767) was a Catalan composer and musicologist.
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Life and career
Life and career
He received early music lessons from his uncle, Ramon Rabassa, an organist, and voice training at the choir of the Cathedral of Santa Eulalia, Barcelona. The maestro de capilla till he was 13 was Joan Barter, and then the more famous Francisco Valls. During this period music in Barcelona was Italianized due to the presence of the court of Archduke Charles of Austria (later Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor) for the duration of the War of the Spanish Succession (1702–1713). Rabassa took holy orders and in 1713 was appointed maestro de capilla at the Cathedral of Vic, though, perhaps as punishment for Austrian sympathies, he moved on to the Cathedral of Valencia (24 May 1714 – 1724) and Cathedral of Seville (1724–1767). During his long tenure in Seville he enlarged the capilla with addition of 4 violins, 2 violas, 2 oboes and 1 flute (1730–1740).
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Works
His main pedagogical text was Guia Para los Principiantes que dessean Perfeycionarse en la Compossicion de la Mussica (1726). Of over 400 known compositions, over 300 survive. • 44 masses • 83 psalms • 110 villancicos Listing on Catalan Wikipedia
Works and production
Works and production
The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count. It is also recorded that pere Rabassa was born on 21 September 1683. Institutional cataloguing adds that pere Rabassa died on 12 December 1767.
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• Miserere. Miserere. Attendite Populi. O vos Omnes. Nunc Dimitis. Accepit Jesus Calicem. Coro "Juan Navarro Hispalensis" dir. Josep Cabré. Almaviva DS-0135 December 2001 • Requiem. "Missa Defunctorum for royal funerals 8 voices, 2 violins, 2 flute and basso continuo" Harmonia del Parnàs. dir. Marian Rosa Montagut, La mà de guido. Ref.: LMG2076 • Et in Terra Pax Misa Simeon Justus Onofri OBS
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- MusicBrainz artist record for Pere Rabassa
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- “Pere Rabassa”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q6745751: Pere Rabassa
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This entry is compiled from 5 catalogued sources across 5 independent registers. The registers consulted are Crossref registry, Wikidata, Wikipedia, MetaBrainz Foundation and DataCite. Every statement above is held against the register that stated it; where the registers are silent, the entry is silent.
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