Pedro Rabassa (1683-1767)
- Misa Simeon Iustus
Performers: Hispanοflamеnca; Orquestra Barrοca de Sеvilla; Enricο Onοfri (conductor)
Further info: Pedro Rabassa (1683-1767) - Miserere
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Spanish composer and theorist. He was born into a family of musicians
the first member of them was Petrum Arrabasta (c.1540-1581). Son of Magí
Rabassa, he received early music lessons by his uncle and organist
Ramón Rabassa. He later was a choirboy at the Barcelona Cathedral where
he was taught by Francisco Valls. During this time the young Rabassa
must have been influenced by the Austrian and Italian musicians employed
at the court of Archduke Carlos III, which had temporarily settled in
Barcelona during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714). On 10
March 1713 he was appointed 'maestro de capilla' at the Vich Cathedral,
but on 24 May 1714 he moved to Valencia Cathedral where he assumed the
same post. On 9 June 1724 he finally became 'maestro de capilla' at the
Sevilla Cathedral, where Philip V's court settled from 1729 to 1733 and
in a post he held until his retirement in 1757, although he continued to
compose music for the cathedral until his death. Rabassa belongs to the
first generation of Spanish composers to adopt elements of the Italian
style in their music (e.g. the introduction of recitatives and arias in
vernacular music). His numerous compositions are widely distributed
among many sources. Like his teacher Valls, he made an outstanding
contribution to the history of music theory with his manuscript treatise
'Guía para los principiantes' (c.1720). His nephew Pedro Miguel Rabassa
(c.1700-1775) was an organist and composer mainly active in Sevilla and
Madrid.
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