Joseph Pradas Gallén (1689-1757)
- Trono Sagrado de Luces (c.1725)
Performers: Harmonia del Pаrnàs; Marian Rosa Mοntаgut (conductor)
Further info: Villancicos a la Verge de la Cinta
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Spanish composer. By 1700, he received music lessons from Joan Baptista
Cabanilles and Antonio Teodoro Ortells when he was a choirboy at
Valencia Cathedral. In 1712 he was appointed maestro de capilla at the
parish church at Algemesi, and in June 1717 he secured a similar post at
the parish church of Santa María in Castellón de la Plana. Finally, on 2
March 1728 he was promoted to maestro de capilla at Valencia Cathedral,
a post he held the rest of his life. He retired on 22 February 1757 and
he returned to his native village, where he died a few months later. As
a composer, he was one of the most well-renowned Spanish composers of
the eighteenth century with over than 400 works, most of them currently
extant and preserved in the archives of the Valencia Cathedral and
Segorbe Cathedral. His output was mainly religious and includes seven
masses, 34 Miserere settings and over 300 villancicos and other
vernacular compositions.
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