Lluís Vicenç Gargallo

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Lluís Vicenç Gargallo (Spanish: Luis Vicente Gargallo) (circa 1636 — Barcelona, 19 February 1682) was a musician and composer from the Baroque period. Gargallo was born most probably in the Valencian Community. He entered as a child in the choir of the Valencia Cathedral towards 1648-1649 and stayed there until 1651 or 1652. There he received his first musical training given by the mestres de capella Francesc Navarro (until 1650) and Dídac Pontac. On 7 June 1659, Gargallo succeeded the mestre de capella of the Huesca Cathedral, a position where Vargas i Babán had preceded him. He resigned his position on 15 November 1667 to join the Barcelona Cathedral in the same position two days later. As usual, he entered temporarily until the death of the holder, Marcià Albareda (21 August 1673), replacing him after that. Among his disciples in Barcelona, there were the future mestres de capella and composers Josep Gaz and Isidre Serrada. Upon his death, Gargallo was replaced temporarily by Jaume Riera, until Joan Barter took on the position on 13 July 1682. Of his compositional production, extensive as it would be expected from a mestre de capella, a minimum of 74 different compositions have been preserved, distributed mainly in six archives: in the Library of Catalonia, in the cathedrals of Girona and Zaragoza, in the chapel of the Real Colegio Seminario del Corpus Christi, in Valencia, and the churches of Sant Pere de Canet de Mar and Santa Maria de Cervera. Its conserved liturgi

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