Benet Brell
Benet Brell
Genres: 19th century, catalan
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About Benet Brell
Benet Brell (Barcelona, 1786 - Montserrat, 1850) was a chapel master, composer, organist and Catalan Benedictine monk of the first half of the 19th Century. He was a member of the Escolania de Montserrat from the age of 10; there he received music lessons from Narcís Casanoves and Anselm Viola . In 1803 he entered the monastery as a monk. His first compositions date from the following year. After the French War , he stood out for the task of restoring the school, and rebuilding the music archive, to which he collaborated with a lot of his own work, both of a liturgical nature and for the study of scholastics (works for piano). From 1828 he was a schoolmaster, a task that was interrupted by confiscation in 1835; the most important part of his production of vocal music dates from this period. During his lifetime he was highly valued as a skilled organ improviser and for his compositions, which include abundant instrumental music: symphonies for orchestra, minuets, sonatas, verses for organ, waltzes. Most of his works are preserved in the archive of the Escolania de Montserrat. They are also preserved in the musical collections of the cathedral-basilica of Sant Esprit de Terrassa (TerC), collections of the parish church of Sant Pere and Sant Pau in Canet de Mar (CMar) and collections of the basilica of Santa Maria de Castellón d'Empúries (CdE). Despite the era in which he lived, his style is fully classical , despite some elements more typical of the earliest Romanticism.
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