Padre Antonio Soler was a Spanish composer who lived between 1729 and 1783.
He spent much of his life as a monk at the 16th century Spanish monastery, the Escorial. In addition to his monastic duties he was expected to train the choir, provide choral music for services and supply the Royal family with secular and instrumental music during their frequent visits. Although much of his day was taken up by prayer and the routine of the community, he found time to compose 150 harpsichord sonatas. His sonatas were written in a different form than Italian composers of harpsichord music. The sonatas written by the great Domenico Scarlatti to name one wrote short 1-3 minute sonatas with 1 or 2 movements. Soler wrote harpsichord sonatas that may have been up to 8 minutes long and had 3 or 4 movements. This disc is Volume 10 of ten volumes of all his harpsichord sonatas that I have.
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