Felip Pedrell(19 February 1841, Tortosa

Tortosa

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  19 August 1922, Barcelona

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), was a Spanish

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 Catalan

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 composer. He worked as a musicologist and early music

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 specialist and edited Victoria

Tomás Luis de Victoria

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’s opera omnia and the requiem of Joan Brudieu

Joan Brudieu

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. This and other of his writings fostered a keen interest in the early music of Spain. Among his notable pupils was composer Rosa García Ascot

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Roberto Gerhard

Roberto Gerhard

Robert Gerhard i Ottenwaelder was a Catalan Spanish composer and musical scholar and writer, generally known outside Catalonia as Robert Gerhard.-Life:...

set 8 of Pedrell's folk tunes as Cancionero de Pedrell.