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Herminio González Barrionuevo, Master of the Chapel at Seville Cathedral for 39 years, offers us an interview in which he reviews his most important moments at the Cathedral.
He was born on 23 November, 195 in Villambroz (Palencia), earned the title of Master of the Chapel at Seville Cathedral through an open skill competition in 1984 and has been canon emeritus since 2020.
He undertook his studies at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Madrid, where he earned the title of Profesor Superior de Musicología.
Between 1979 and 1985, he received a grant to advance his musical studies at the Pontificio Istituto di Musica Sacra de Roma, where he also obtained the title ofLicencia en Música Sacra and Doctor of Musicology.
He occupied the position of Chair of Musicology at the Conservatorio Superior Manuel Castillo ____ until his retirement in the 2011-2012 year, where he gave many of the musicology courses, among them Gregorian Chant, Musical Notation, Music in the oral tradition, the Sevillian School of polyphony, and Liturgical-musical Institutions, among others.
In 1987, through an open competition, he won the position of Master of the Chapel of the Metropolitan and Patriarchal Church of Sevilla, taking charge of the Seises, institution which he cemented, elevated, and solidified, as well as of the Cathedral’s Coral Polifónica.
He is the author of various books and articles about musicology in domestic and international journals; among them, one about the composers and Masters of the Chapel at Seville Cathedral (16th – 20th centuries). He is currently finishing a book about musical notation in ancient Spanish liturgy, a topic he has been working on for nearly forty years.
Among other accolades, he was named a permanent member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de Santa Isabel de Hungría in 2020.
