Jacint Boada
Jacint Boada
Genres: 19th century, catalan
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About Jacint Boada
Jacint Boada i Casanoves (born 1772 in Terrassa; died 1859 in the monastery of Montserrat) was an organist, composer and monk from the monastery of Montserrat. He was a member of the Escolania de Montserrat between 1780 and 1786 and there he trained musically with Narcís Casanoves and Anselm Viola. Later, in 1790, he entered the monastery of Montserrat where he was teacher of the Escolania. After the French War, in 1818, when the escolania resumed its activity, Boada contributed by composing music both for worship and for the musical learning of the escolars. Five years after the confiscation of Mendizábal, and the exclaustration, in 1840, Boada returned to the monastery; in a precarious situation like that, he invented the Salve Montserratina, with the typical alternation of verses in Gregorian chant and polyphony. The following year he again restored the school system as he had already done after the French War and after the Liberal Triennium. In those last years of his life he was the teacher of some students who later became prominent musicians such as Bartomeu Blanch, Baltasar Saldoni or Magí Pontí. Despite the chronology, his music - both liturgical and for piano, the latter mainly didactic - remains within the stylistic canons of classicism.
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