[1] From 1768 he was an organist at the Orense Cathedral and the Madrid Royal Chapel, working in the service first of King Charles IV and afterwards Ferdinand VII.
After the return of Ferdinand VII to the throne, he interceded for his friend and fellow composer Juan Oliver Astorga [es].
From 1805 until his death he held the charge of director of the Royal Chapel (maestro de la Capilla Real) in Madrid, and rector of the Real Colegio de Niños Cantores.
He composed more than seventy pieces of sacred music (oratories, psalms, Holy Week lamentations) and sonatas and fugues for organ, plus a string quartet.
His well-known Organ Sonata de Primo Tono has been acclaimed as an example of the Age of Romanticism.