Pere Rabassa (Catalan pronunciation: peɾə rə'βasə (Spanish: Pedro Rabassa) (

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1683 -

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, 12 December 1767) was a Catalan composer and musicologist.

Life and career

He received early music lessons from his uncle, Ramon Rabassa, an organist, and voice training at the choir of the

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, Barcelona. The ''maestro de capilla'' till he was 13 was Joan Barter, and then the more famous

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. During this period music in Barcelona was Italianized due to the presence of the court of Archduke Charles of Austria (later

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) for the duration of the

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(1702–1713). Rabassa took holy orders and in 1713 was appointed ''maestro de capilla'' at the

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, though, perhaps as punishment for Austrian sympathies, he moved on to the

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(24 May 1714 – 1724) and

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(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).

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 The ''villancico'' (Spanish, ) or vilancete (Portuguese, ) was a common poetic and musical form of the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America popular from the late 15th to 18th centuries. Important composers of villancicos were Juan del Encina, Pedro ...

Listing on Catalan Wikipedia

Discography

* 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.: LMG2076Review in Spanish
/ref> * Et in Terra Pax ''Misa Simeon Justus'' Onofri OBS

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1683 births 1767 deaths Spanish male composers Composers from Catalonia Spanish musicologists Musicians from Barcelona 18th-century composers 18th-century male musicians {{Spain-composer-stub