Alberto Taulé

TAULÉ, Alberto. b. Sabadell, Spain, 2 December 1932; d. Barcelona, 24 March 2007. Monsignor Alberto Taulé Viñas was a parish priest, professor of music, and a composer. Born in the autonomous region of Catalonia, north of Barcelona, he was the son of Josep Taulé and Dolors Viñas, a Catalan educator and journalist. Taulé composed approximately 30 congregational songs in the style of the sardana, a Catalan folk music genre that accompanies a circle dance with intricate steps that change with the music. A form often used for festivals and on weekends in front of churches, sardanes are supported by an orchestra of eleven people, forming a cobla of ten wind instruments and a bass, one of which...