Rojo Olalla, Casiano

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Rojo Olalla, Casiano

Rojo Olalla, Casiano , Spanish organist, choirmaster, and writer on music; b. Hacinas, Aug. 5, 1877; d. Burgos, Dec. 4, 1931. He studied at the Santo Domingo de Silos monastery in Burgos, where he became a Benedictine monk (1896), and later pursued studies with Pothier in Belgium. He was active as an organist and choirmaster, and became an authority on Gregorian chant. He publ. a valuable manual, Mètodo de canto gregoriano (Valladolid, 1906), as well as Manual de canto gregoriano (Silos, 1908), Cantus Lamentationum (Bilbao, 1917), Antiphonarium Mozarabicum de la Catedral de Leon (with G. Prado; Leon, 1928), and El Canto mozarabe (with G. Prado; Barcelona, 1929).

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