Moltes felicitats Pedro Rabassa! 🙏🏼🎻
Composer: Pedro Rabassa (1683-1767)
Work: Misa Simeon Iustus
Performers: Hispanοflamеnca; Orquestra Barrοca de Sеvilla; Enricο Onοfri (conductor)
Misa Simeon Iustus
1. Kyrie 0:00
2. Gloria 3:59
3. Credo 9:55
4. Sanctus 16:21
5. Agnus Dei 17:29
Drawing: Jacques Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772) - Gezicht op de Kathedraal van Sevilla Gde. rue de Seville
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Engraving: Anoniem (18th Century) - Barcellona
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Pedro (Pere) Rabassa
(Barcelona, bap. 21 September 1683 - Sevilla, 12 December 1767)
Spanish composer and theorist. He was born into a family of musicians the first member of them was Petrum Arrabasta (). 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’ (). His nephew Pedro Miguel Rabassa () was an organist and composer mainly active in Sevilla and Madrid.