Artist Info: Joan Cererols

Joan Cererols (September 9, 1618 – August 27, 1680) was a Catalan musician and Benedictine monk. His musical production includes a Requiem (or Missa pro defunctis) composed in the mid-seventeenth century during the great plague which ravaged Barcelona, and a Missa de Batalla (Battle's Mass) which celebrates the conquest of the Kingdom of Naples.

Cererols was born in Martorell. He entered the choir school escolania of Montserrat around 1626. Cererols took his first steps in music under the direction of Joan March, a famous organist. [read more...]