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Diego Llorente y Solà
spanish18th century
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Diego Llorente y Solà (d. 1802) was a Spanish cathedral organist, priest, and composer whose career is documented across several late-eighteenth-century ecclesiastical institutions. He is recorded as organist at Barbastro Cathedral from 1771, later also serving there as chapelmaster, and subsequently as maestro de capilla at Huesca Cathedral (1785–1799). In 1799 he moved to Salamanca to deputise for the cathedral’s first organist, Gaspar Baquero, but his work there was cut short by his sudden death in March 1802. Sources emphasise the need to distinguish him from his son, the musician Mariano Diego Llorente, with whom his biography has sometimes been confused. Llorente y Solà’s surviving music is chiefly known through cathedral and institutional archives, including holdings at Huesca and Salamanca and the chapel archive of the University of Salamanca; in Salamanca, a Miserere a 4 y a 8 is among the works preserved under his name. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.