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Josep Reig
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Josep Reig (Peratallada, 1595 - Barcelona, 1674) was chapel master of Santa Maria del Mar in Barcelona from 1618 until his death. A follower of Joan Pau Pujol, he is one of the main composers who concluded what has been agreed to be called the first stage of the musical Baroque in Catalonia, characterized by the emergence of polychorality as a genuinely Baroque phenomenon and which lays its foundations with the initial presence of its most defining features: indistinct use of imitative counterpoint and homophony; recourse to rhetorical procedures; games of contrasts in the density, polychoral concerto and the presence of the bass continuo. In 1613 he was dismissed from the school of the cathedral of Barcelona, where he should have received the teachings of Joan Pau Pujol (1573 - 1626) and his predecessor Jaume Àngel Tàpies (?-1612), for having changed his voice. On September 16, 1618, at the age of twenty-three, he took part in the competition to be the chapel master of Santa Maria del Mar and won the position. In 1626, on the occasion of the passing of Joan Pujol, he was one of the auctioneers of his goods. On May 20, 1655 , he was appointed chapel master of Santa Maria del Mar ad vitam and on January 13, 1656, said perpetuation was confirmed following the pastoral visit made by the canon and archdeacon Sans. March 2, 1667: a council was held to discuss Reig's retirement. On May 24, 1669 , he requested that his assistant Miquel Rosquelles replace him , after more t