country_of_citizenship josep mestres quadreny
The Cardener is a river in ___MASK60___ , ___MASK54___ . Its source is at " Les Fonts del Cardener " in the municipality of La Coma i la Pedra ( Solsonès ) at an elevation of . It drains a basin of . It passes through the reservoir of Sant Ponç ( 25 hm ) between Olius and Clariana de Cardener ( Solsonès ), Cardona , Súria and Manresa ( Bages ) before joining the Llobregat from the left at Castellgalí ( Bages ). Bages is a comarca ( county ) in the center of ___MASK60___ , ___MASK54___ . It includes a " subcomarca ", Lluçanès . ___MASK60___ is an autonomous community of ___MASK54___ , located on the northeastern extremity of the Iberian Peninsula . It is designated as a " nationality " by its Statute of Autonomy . ___MASK60___ consists of four provinces : Barcelona , Girona , Lleida , and Tarragona . The capital and largest city is Barcelona , the second - most populated municipality in ___MASK54___ and the core of the seventh - most populous urban area in the European Union . Manresa is the capital of the Comarca of Bages , located in the geographic centre of ___MASK60___ , ___MASK54___ , and crossed by the river Cardener . It is an industrial area with textile , metallurgical , and glass industries . The houses of Manresa are arranged around the basilica of Santa María de la Seo . Saint Ignatius of Loyola stopped to pray in the town on his way back from Montserrat in 1522 . He also read in solitude in a cave near the town for a year , which contributed to the formulation of his Spiritual Exercises . As such , the town is a place of pilgrimage for Catholics . Josep Maria Mestres Quadreny ( born 4 March 1929 in Manresa ) is a Spanish composer . He studied sciences at the University of Barcelona , taking lessons in composition from Cristòfor Taltabull . In 1968 he started the Catalan Group of Contemporary Music ( Conjunt Català de Música Contemporània ) , and in 1976 the Catalan Instrumental Group ( Grup Instrumental Català ) with Carles Santos . He also founded the Phonos Laboratory of Electroacoustic Music in 1973 . His output includes incidental music for theatre and cinema , musicals , ballet , opera and instrumental music . He has also collaborated with visual artists , including Joan Miró , Antoni Tàpies and Joan Brossa . In addition to his compositional activities , he has taught at the Darmstadt New Music Courses and the Latin American Course of Contemporary Music in Brazil . He is charmain of Joan Brossa Foundation and emeritous member of board of trustees of Joan Miró Foundation .