Bernardo Miralles

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Bernardo Miralles (Iglesuela del Cid, May 20, 1731 - Zaragoza?, after 1770) was a Spanish baroque composer and maestro de capilla. Little is known about this composer. His musical education was held as an infant of the choir of the Cathedral of Tarazona. In 1755 he is mentioned as a chapel master of the Cathedral of Tarazona in a competition he held in Zamora for the mastery of the Cathedral.1 In Tarazona he had succeeded the master Juan Antonio Ripa Blanque (1721-1795). His successor in the Tarazona post was Francisco Sala y Carbonell who found a decadent chapel, due to the council's many years of disinterest in music. In 1758 he was already mentioned in oppositions to the mastery of the Cathedral of Cuenca as "master of Zaragoza". Miralles lost Cuenca's opposition to Francisco Morera. On March 10, 1759, he was appointed master of the chapel of the Pillar from Valencia. There is no documentation of this stay in Valencia, although works by Miralles are preserved in the Cathedral. In the Pillar he was the teacher of Agustín Iranzo y Herrero (1748—1804), later master of the chapel of the collegiate of San Nicolás de Alicante and the Cathedral of Guadix. On June 8, 1764 he was disented from the teaching of the choirs due to his delicate health. He left office in 1766. During his stay in Zaragoza he would not stop unsuccessfully opposing other masters looking for a more prestigious position, even with his poor health. After the death of Jaime Casellas, in 1763 he opposed the

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