Lluís Vicenç Gargallo


Lluís Vicenç Gargallo otherwise Luis Vicente Gargallo was a musician and composer from the Baroque period.

Biography

Gargallo was born most probably in the Valencian Community. He entered as a child in the choir of the Valencia Cathedral towards 1648-1649 and stayed there until 1651 or 1652. There he received his first musical training given by the mestres de capella Francesc Navarro and Dídac Pontac.
On 7 June 1659, Gargallo succeeded the mestre de capella of the Huesca Cathedral, a position where Vargas i Babán had preceded him. He resigned to the place on 15 November 1667 to join two days later in the Barcelona Cathedral in the same position. As usual, he entered temporarily until the death of the holder, Marcià Albareda, replacing him after that. Among his disciples in Barcelona, there were the future mestres de capella and composers and Isidre Serrada. Upon his death, Gargallo was replaced temporarily by Jaume Riera, until took on the position on 13 July 1682.
Of his compositional production, extensive as it would be expected from a mestre de capella, a minimum of 74 different compositions have been preserved, distributed mainly in six archives: in the Library of Catalonia, in the cathedrals of Girona and Zaragoza, in the chapel of the Real Colegio Seminario del Corpus Christi, in Valencia, and the churches of and. Its conserved liturgical production includes 32 works: eight for 4 to 16 voices, a mass for the dead, four masses from 5 to 8 voices and a requiem for two choirs; In addition, he made two oratorios, twenty five villancetes and fifteen tonos. He was the first known Catalan composer to cultivate the oratorio, a typically Baroque musical form.

Works

Liturgic works