A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Andrevi, Francesco

by Mary Catherine Hamilton

ANDREVI, Francesco, born near Lerida in Catalonia of Italian parents in 1785, died at Barcelona in 1844; was successively the director of music in the cathedrals of Valencia, Seville, Bourdeaux (1832 to 1842) where he fled during the civil war, and in the church of Our Lady of Mercy at Barcelona. His sacred compositions were good and numerous, but a 'Nunc Dimittis' and a 'Salve Regina,' printed in Eslava's collection of Spanish church music, 'Lira Sacro-Hispana,' are his only published works. His treatise on Harmony and Counterpoint was translated into French (Paris, 1848).

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