Tomàs Milans i Godayol (1672-1742) - Zarzuela al Santisimo a 3 voces
Performers: Begoña Lópеz (soprano); Inès Moralеda (mezzo-soprano); Jordi
Cаsаnova (tenor);
Mapa Hаrmónico; Francesc Bonаstre (conductor)
Drawing: Anoniem (18th Century) - Barcellona
Further info: Tomàs Milans Godayol (1672-1742) - Música Religiosa
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Spanish composer. Son of Marc Antoni Milans i Macià (1625-1708) and
Maria Anna Godayol, he was sent, together with his brother Carles Milans
Godayol (1669-1724), to Barcelona, where he studied at the Santa Maria
del Pi with the organist Jeroni Oller. The brothers sang as choirboys in
the chapel of the Palau Reial Menor where Oller was organist. In 1701
he was appointed as the substitute of Felip Olivelles, the chapel master
there. A considerable part of Milans' career was influenced by the War
of the Spanish Succession (1702-1714) which ended with the Peace of
Utrecht. The resident of the Palau, the marquis of Los Vélez, was a
supporter of the Bourbons and because of that the family's possessions
were confiscated by the royal authorities. The chapel was transferred to
a royal committee and after the war reprisals were taken against many
of the musicians. Whether Milans was one of the victims is apparently
not known, but in 1714 he worked as mestro de capella of Girona
cathedral, a post he held the rest of his life. He was a prolific
composer of church music, being a link between the musicians of the
Spanish and Austrian courts, such as Johann Joseph Fux and Antonio
Caldara. That is not to say that Milans was a mere imitator, but rather
that he was aware of, and incorporated into his own music, the various
emerging stylistic trends of that age of transition.
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