Francisco Andreví
Spanish composer
Francisco Andreví y Castellar (Catalan: Francesc Andreví i Castellar; 7 November 1786 – 23 November 1853) was a Catalan composer of Italian ancestry.
Francesc Andreví i castellar was a Catalan composer of Italian parentage. When he was eight he began his musical studies at La Seu d’Urgell. At fifteen he went to barcelona to continue his ecclesiastical career, and study organ with the Carmen convent organist P.Quintana and composition with Rev. Francisco Queralt, the cathedral chapel master. 3 years later he obtained the organist place at the Teresianes convent, and later at Magdalene’s. He Won for opposition in 1806 the master place at Tarifa cathedral, which he wasn’t able to practise due to the war with the French. At the age of 21, he obtained Segorbe’s one; he received holy orders there during 5 years. Barcelona’s Santa maria del mar chapel master between 1814 and 1819, of Sogorb, Valencia, Sevilla cathedrals on (1830) and Madrid royal chapel on (1831), for which he had to compete with Francisco Jose Olivares and Hilarion Eslava. At 1836 he left this position, -which was given to Mariano rodriguez de ledesma- due to difficulties aroused by some of the chapel musicians, and left to France, where he was Sant andreu de Bordeus cathedral chapel master (1836) before temporary established himself at Paris (1845).
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