Joan Pau Pujol

In 1612 he returned to Barcelona, becoming maestro de capilla at the cathedral, a distinguished post which he held until his death.

Evidently a condition of his employment was to produce a fixed quantity of new liturgical music each year.

Pujol wrote much of his music for the patron saint of Catalonia, St. George, and most of his compositions are based on Gregorian chant.

Surviving secular music includes romances, letrillas, liras, novenas, tonos, a folia, and 16 other works, some of which were collected in groups of madrigals of the time; they were evidently popular in Spain in the early part of the 17th century.

Yet many of his masses and psalm settings are polychoral, borrowing the style of the contemporary Venetian school; however the musical language is of the late Renaissance, rather than the early Baroque, which was then developing in Italy and Germany.