Spanish Baroque religious music

Religious music during the baroque in Spain wasn’t as innovative as rich as secular forms, due to the conservativeness of the Catholic Church. The main composers of religious music during the baroque in Spain were Joan Cererolls and Francisco Valls.

Joan Cererols was a Catalan musician and Benedictine monk born in Martorel, in 1618. He entered the school choir Choir of Montserrat in around 1626. His musical production includes a Requiem composed in the mid-seventeenth century during the great plague that left Barcelona completely destroyed, and a mass, the Missa de Batalla (Battle Mass) which celebrates the conquest of the Kingdom of Naples. The polychoral dialogue texture with a slight gap between the vocal entries within each choir which lightens his style.

He also composed this Magnificat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTnds3it5wU

Francisco Valls was a composer and music theorist of the Spanish Baroque, one of the greatest exponents of baroque music in Catalonia. He was born in Barcelona in 1671, studying with the master of the cathedral John Barter. He was appointed choirmaster of Santa Maria del Mar in 1696 and 7 December of the same year he replaced in the cathedral of Barcelona to John Barter, who was retiring. Francisco Valls has been considered a key songwriter in Catalan and Spanish music in general at the time, both in the place where he was (the Cathedral) and by the knowledge he had of the new musical currents in France, Italy and Germany.

He wrote the influential music manual Mapa Armónico Práctico. Valls, and his musical production reached more than 600 compositions of which some 320 have been preserved in the Library of Catalonia. Just over half of his works are in Latin and other romance compositions, primarily carols. Most of his work is religious in nature.

Here is an example of his music: O Gloriosa Virginum - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FJaJZql3HY