Francisco Luis Serra

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Francisco Luis Serra (Barcelona?, c. 1680 - Zaragoza, December 28, 1758) was a Catalan musician and master of the chapel of the Basilica of Pilar. González Valle affirms that he went to study in Naples with Francesco Durante. He won the oppositions for chapel master of Santa María del Mar in Barcelona in 1699, where he remained until 1715 according to Cabré. He was appointed chapel master of the cathedral-basilica of the Pilar de Zaragoza on March 23, 1715. The cathedral proceedings say that it came from "Santa María del Pino", which may be an error of the copyist or that he occupied the mastery of Santa María del Pino after passing through Santa María del Mar. An activity of his that has been preserved is the signing of the treatise School of Music of Pablo Nasarre on May 7, 1723, a work that he praised profusely. In 1728 he applied to the competitions for chapel master of the Corpus Christi College of Valencia, vacada after the death of maestro Pedro Martínez de Orgambide. He faced other chapel masters of the cathedrals of Murcia, Tortosa or Tudela, and other minor churches, such as the collegiate church of Rubielos or the parishes of Onteniente and Castellón. Finally, the master of the cathedral of Astorga, Francisco Hernández de Illana, won. It is very likely that his nephew, Juan Ramón Oliac y Serra, studied with Serra in Zaragoza. The uncle also supported his nephew in achieving the mastery of the cathedral of Ávila with a letter of recommendation dated February 17,

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