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Francisco Andreví y Castellar (Catalan: Francesc Andreví i Castellar; 7 November 1786 – 23 November 1853) was a Catalan composer of Italian ancestry.

Francesc Andreví i castellar was a Catalan composer of Italian parentage. When he was eight he began his musical studies at La Seu d’Urgell. At fifteen he went to barcelona to continue his ecclesiastical career, and study organ with the Carmen convent organist P.Quintana and composition with Rev. Francisco Queralt, the cathedral chapel master. 3 years later he obtained the organist place at the Teresianes convent, and later at Magdalene’s. He Won for opposition in 1806 the master place at Tarifa cathedral, which he wasn’t able to practise due to the war with the French. At the age of 21, he obtained Segorbe’s one; he received holy orders there during 5 years. Barcelona’s Santa maria del mar chapel master between 1814 and 1819, of Sogorb, Valencia, Sevilla cathedrals on (1830) and Madrid royal chapel on (1831), for which he had to compete with Francisco Jose Olivares and Hilarion Eslava. At 1836 he left this position, -which was given to Mariano rodriguez de ledesma- due to difficulties aroused by some of the chapel musicians, and left to France, where he was Sant andreu de Bordeus cathedral chapel master (1836) before temporary established himself at Paris (1845). At his return to Barcelona at 1850, he was església de la merce’s chapel master, position where he stayed until his dead on 1853 and in addition he tutored musicians as Josep reventos i truch, Esteve Tusquets i maignon and others who became famous later on.

Among his works are 6 Masses, one Mass for the Dead, three Stabat mater, fifteen motets, nine Lamentations and a Tantum Ergo. Most like a significant part of the musical background conserved at Cervera Local Historical registry is a part o what was his personal archive.

He wrote numerous pieces, many of which are conserved in handwritten at Barcelona’s església de la mercè royal chapel. Some of them:

An Stabat Mater
A Requiem mass
Some Lamentations
Two miserere
El Judici Final: (oratory)
La dolcesa en la virtut: (sacred drama)

While he was at France he published:

Traité d’Harmonie: (Paris. 1848) with a Spanish edition called: Tratado teórico de armonia y composición (Barcelona, 1848).
Recueil de Cantiques: (Paris).

A large number of his pieces are conserved in different Catalonia musical Backgrounds: IFMuC, and also (TerC, MatC, SEO, CdE).

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References

Vilar; Josep M.; Ester Sala, Maria: "Cervera. Arxiu Històric Comarcal", Revista Musical Catalana, número 50 (1988) p. 43.
Enciclopèdia Espasa Tom núm. 5, pag. 458 (ISBN 84-239-4505-7)
Puig i Ortiz, Xavier. «Francisco Andreví i Castellà (Sanaüja, 1786 - Barcelona, 1853), músic segarrenc». Miscel·lània Cerverina, 1996, pàg. 71-96.
Pena, Angles, Joaquin, Higini. Diccionari de la música Labor. Barcelona (en castella). Barcelona: Editorial Labor, S.A., p. 75.
Enciclopèdia Espasa Volum núm. 65, pàg. 214-15 (ISBN 84-239-4565-0)
Gregori i Cifré, Josep Maria. Inventaris dels fons musicals de Catalunya. Volum 1: Fons de la catedral-basílica del Sant Esperit de Terrassa.. Barcelona: Generalitat de Catalunya, Departament de Cultura i Mitjans de Comunicació, 2007.
Gregori i Cifré, Josep Maria - Cabot i Sagrera, Neus. Inventaris dels fons musicals de Catalunya. Volum 4: Fons del Museu-Arxiu de Santa Maria de Mataró.. Barcelona: Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de Cultura i Mitjans de Comunicació - UAB, 2009.
Gregori i Cifré, Josep Maria - Monells i Laqué, Carme. Inventaris dels fons musicals de Catalunya. Volum 6: Fons de l'església parroquial de Sant Esteve d'Olot i Fons Teodoro Echegoyen de l'Arxiu Comarcal de la Garrotxa.. Barcelona: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2012.
Gregori i Cifré, Josep Maria - Salgado Cobo, Elena. Inventaris dels fons musicals de Catalunya. Volum 7: Fons de la basílica de Santa Maria de Castelló d'Empúries. Barcelona: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2013.
* IFMuC: Inventari dels Fons Musical a Catalunya
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Grove, George, ed. (1900). "Andrevi, Francesco" . A Dictionary of Music and Musicians. London: Macmillan and Company.