Francesco Andrevi

Background

Francesco Andrevi was born November 16, 1786, in Sanauj, Spain. From 1845-1849 he lived in Paris and was then called to Barcelona as maestro of the church of Our Lady of Mercy.

Career

He was music-director at the cathedrals of Valencia, Sevilla, and other Spanish cities, also at Bordeaux from 1832-1842, during the Carlist wars.

Achievements

• The best of his numerous and excellent compositions are an oratorio The Last Judgment a Requiem and a Stabat Plata; only a Nunc dimittis and a Salve regina have been printed. A treatise on Harmony and Counterpoint. has been translated into French (Paris, 1848).