Ramón González Barrón (August 12, 1897,

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– July 30, 1987, Villanueva del Campo) was a Spanish

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and

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. He was educated at the in

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and the Universidad Eclesiástica de Santiago where he graduated with a degree in

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in 1923. He Later studied music composition in Madrid with Emilio Vega. In 1921 he was appointed choirmaster at the

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. He remained there until 1926 when he was appointed choir master at the

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. He remained in that position for twenty years, leaving that role in 1946 when he was appointed choir master at the

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in Madrid. In 1959 González Barrón founded the Agrupación Coral Nuestra Señora de la Almudena; an organization through which he gave many professional choral concerts. He was a principal organizer of the Congreso Nacional de Música Sagrada in Madrid in 1954. He wrote several articles which were published in Spanish-language music journals. His compositional output includes seven masses, four in Latin and three in the Spanish language,; motets; anthems; and both sacred and secular songs.

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