Rafael Coloma

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Rafael Coloma was a 16th Century Catalan composer and maestro de capilla. There is very little information about the origin of Coloma. On August 14, 1586, he replaced maestro Joan Brudieu in the magisterium of the music chapel of the Cathedral of Seo de Urgel, a teacher who had retired on May 6. He got the position in competition with Pere Peruga, who at that time was master of the basilica chapel of Santa María del Mar in Barcelona and would later occupy the teaching of the Cathedral of Tarragona briefly in 1587. Since Peruga could not go, the position was handed over to Coloma. During Coloma's first stay in the Seo de Urgel, Brudieu remained at the urgelense headquarters and maintained his compositional activity, and when Coloma left on January 21, 1587 to occupy the Tarragona teaching profession, Burdieu returned to his previous position. Coloma took office as chapel master of the Cathedral of Tarragona on February 4, 1589, due to some problems with the archbishop, Juan Terés and Borrull, for his appointment. During his teaching, the musical chapel of Tarragona had some prestigious musicians, such as the organist Hernando de Lindrén and the bass player Agustí Serra, who also dubbed as a bass singer. He was very active in the maintenance of the musicians of the chapel and under his initiative a grandstand was built for the singers that improved the sound of singing and that has been maintained to this day. He was entrusted to the school or infants, of whom he was in cha

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