Josep Muset i Ferrer

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Josep Muset i Ferrer (born October 13, 1889 in Igualada , † February 9, 1957 in Barcelona ) was a Catalan organist , composer and Roman Catholic priest.

life and work

Josep Muset studied music at the Escola de Montserrat . He later became a student of Lluís Romeu in Vic and Vicenç M. de Gibert in Barcelona. He completed postgraduate studies at the Schola Cantorum in Paris with Abel Decaux in the organ and with Louis Vierne , the organist of Notre-Dame , in the subjects counterpoint and improvisation.

Muset initially worked as Kapellmeister at the Vic seminary. He then became organist in Sabadell and from 1934 to 1936 at the Cathedral of Barcelona . During the same period he worked as a professor of organ and harmonization at the Conservatori del Liceu in Barcelona. In 1936 he left Catalonia and settled in France, Belgium, Australia, Canada and the United States for certain periods of time. He gave numerous organ concerts in the respective countries. In 1949 he returned to Barcelona, ​​worked as organist of the Sant Sever Church and resumed teaching at the Conservatori del Liceu .

As a composer he left behind organ works such as the litany for organ , the gloss of a folk song for mixed choir, religious songs for the people and the work Triptych for large orchestra, for which he received the Granados Prize in the National Competition of the Generalitat de Catalunya .

Josep Muset was the brother of the writer Antoni Muset i Ferrer and the musician and composer Frederic Muset i Ferrer .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Josep Muset i Ferrer. In: Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Josep Muset i Ferrer. In: Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música.
personal data
SURNAME Muset i Ferrer, Josep
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catalan organist, composer and Catholic priest
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Igualada
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1957
Place of death Barcelona