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Identification

Type:

Person

Preferred form:

Artero, José (1890-1961)Other forms

Fechas de existencia:

Sena (Huesca, España) 1890-04-17 - Alcalá del Obispo (Huesca, España) 1961-02-08

History:

Spanish priest, musicologist, professor, and critic. He was born on April 17 of 1890 in Sena (Huesca, Spain) and died on February 8 of 1961 in Alcalá del Obispo (Huesca, Spain).

He studied Philosophy and Literature and Canon Law at the Universidad Pontificia of Comillas. He was a pupil of Father Nemesio Otaño (SI) since 1910, with whom he worked when writing the magazine "Música Sacro Hispana" and with the choral group Schola Cantorum.

In 1914, via public examination, he won a position in the canonry as prefect of music at the cathedral of Salamanca. In 1929, Manuel de Falla asked him to vouch for Segismundo Romero, so that the cellist could occupy a place in the recently opened Conservatory of Seville.

In 1940 he was appointed dean of the newly created Universidad Pontificia of Salamanca and professor of Fundamental Theology, a position he held until his retirement. He was a professor at the Escuela Superior de Música Sagrada, ran by Tomás de Manzarraga; and a collaborator of the Spanish Institute of Musicology, as well as honorary member of it.

As a renowned figure of religious music of the time, he was one of the greatest promoters of the Motu Proprio in Spain. Aside from the numerous investigations he carried out, he collaborated in different musical magazines such as "España Sacro Musical", "Ritmo", "Tesoro Sacro Musical", "Música", and "Anuario Musical". In this last one, he published his most relevant research work, "Oposiciones al magisterio de capilla en la España del siglo XVIII" (1947).