Sunday, Novembre 30, 2025.
Auditorium of La Merced of the Girona Provincial Council.
At 19 hours (7:00 p.m.)
An hour beforehand, there will be an explanation of the concert's works in a room adjacent to the auditorium.

Dedicated to the works of Tomàs Milans
Canet de Mar (1672-1742). Active in Girona between 1714 and 1733.

Tomàs Milans is one of the few Catalan Baroque composers who has been studied and has a published biography. His family relationship with St. Josep Oriol (Barcelona 1650-1702), of whom he was a distant relative, has benefited him. It was the saint who acted as his tutor when he went to study in Barcelona as a young man, where he became an altar boy in the music chapel of the Palacio de la Condesa, the only non-ecclesiastical Catalan musical institution of the time in Catalonia. He was ordained a priest in 1701 and subsequently became director of the aforementioned chapel, a position he abandoned in 1714, fearing political reprisals following the Bourbon victory in 1714. He soon afterward obtained a position in Girona, where he remained until his retirement.

His family's good economic position facilitated his extensive social connections, which is reflected in his music, which displays traces of Italian, Germanic, and Castilian origins. Barcelona's musical tradition did not allow for the long melismos so appreciated by Buxtehude (1637-1707). Among Milans's works preserved in the Girona chapter archive, we find more than one example, which would indicate that Milans found greater musical freedom here in Girona than in Austrian-era Barcelona.

Tomàs Milans was a harpist, and Girona had a certain tradition of playing this instrument. That's why we've managed to give the basso continuo a distinctive element of Catalan Baroque poignancy in this concert, a very unique feature.
The works in this concert are for four voices and continuo from the Girona chapter archive.


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