Bernat Baretja

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Bernat Baretja , Spanish also Bernardo Barecha , (* 16th century ; † 17th century ) was a Catalan composer and choirmaster of the Escolania de Montserrat .

Only a few facts have come down to us from Bernat Baretja. For the year 1623 Baretja is proven as master Escolania de Montserrat . According to the Efemérides de músicos españoles (1860) by the musicologist Baltasar Saldoni , Baretja was a good singer and composer.

He was apparently related to the sailor and later monk of Montserrat Miquel Baretja .

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Individual evidence

  1. a b Baltasar Saldoni: Efemérides de músicos españoles. Dubrull, Madrid 1860, p. 141 ( digitized in the Google book search).
  2. The year of death of Bernat Baretja given in the article Escola de Montserrat is due to a confusion on the part of the editors of the Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música with the year of death of the namesake Miguel Baretja. The Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música does not give a date of death in its personal article on Bernat Baretja. Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música: Escola de Montserrat. Retrieved January 28, 2020 (Catalan).
  3. a b c Bernat Baretja. In: Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música.
  4. Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música: Miquel Baretja. Retrieved January 28, 2020 (Catalan).