Joan Pau Pujol
Joan Pau Pujol (Catalan pronunciation: . While best known for his sacred music, he also wrote popular secular music.
Life
Pujol was born in Mataró. In 1593 he became the assistant maestro de capilla at the cathedral in Barcelona, but he only held this post for a few months, taking the post of maestro de capilla (master of the chapel) at the cathedral in Tarragona, and then in 1595 at Nuestra Señora del Pilar in Zaragoza, a post which he kept for 17 years. While in Zaragoza, in 1600, he became a priest. In 1612 he returned to Barcelona, becoming maestro de capilla at the cathedral, a distinguished post which he held until his death. Most of his music dates from the time he was in Barcelona. Evidently a condition of his employment was to produce a fixed quantity of new liturgical music each year. Unusually for many composers of the time, most of it has survived.
Also while in Barcelona he served as an organ consultant, and helped in various organ building projects in Catalonia. He died in Barcelona.
Music
Pujol wrote much of his music for the patron saint of Catalonia,
His missa pro defunctis—the
Sources
- Article "Juan Pujol," in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie. 20 vol. London, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1980. ISBN 1-56159-174-2
- Emilio Ros-Fábregas: "Joan Pau Pujol," Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed February 1, 2005), (subscription access) Archived 2008-05-16 at the Wayback Machine
- ISBN 0-393-09530-4
External links
- Short biographical sketch
- Free scores by Joan Pau Pujol in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)
