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The Orfeó Català is a
choral society
A choir ( ; also known as a chorale or chorus) is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform. Choirs may perform music from the classical music repertoire, which sp ...
based in
Barcelona
Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within ci ...
, Catalonia, Spain, which was founded in 1891 by
Lluís Millet
Lluís Millet i Pagès (18 April 1867 in El Masnou – 7 December 1941 in Barcelona) was a Spanish Catalan composer, musician and co-founder of Orfeó Català in 1891.
A student of Felip Pedrell, from 1896 he taught choral music at Barcelona's ...
and
Amadeu Vives
Amadeu Vives i Roig (; 18 November 1871 – 2 December 1932) was a Spanish musical composer, creator of over a hundred stage works. He is best known for ''Doña Francisquita
''Doña Francisquita'' is a zarzuela in three acts composed by Ama ...
.
[William H. Robinson, Jordi Falgàs, Carmen Belen Lord Barcelona and Modernity: Picasso, Gaudí, Miró, Dalí 2006 page 161 "Founded in September 1891 by two young musicians, Felix Millet and Amadeu Vives, the Orfeo Catala performed its first public concert in April 1892. As its importance increased the Orfeo came to need its own premises, and when the jeweler Joaquim Cabot was president of the choir Domenech was formally commissioned to design a building for it in October 1904. "]
The
Palau de la Música Catalana
Palau de la Música Catalana (, en, Palace of Catalan Music) is a concert hall in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Designed in the Catalan '' modernista'' style by the architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner, it was built between 1905 and 1908 for O ...
, a major Barcelona landmark, was commissioned for the choral society in 1904, and completed in 1908.
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Spanish choirs
Culture in Barcelona
Musical groups from Catalonia
1891 establishments in Spain
Musical groups established in 1891