Emili Vendrell

Emili Vendrell. Music Department: Alma de Dios. Emili Vendrell i Ibars was a Catalan tenor. He was born in Barcelona, in the Raval quarter, in 1893. His father was a builder so he apprenticed with him and became a stonemason (brickbuilder), yet he always liked music. At seven he entered the Santa Maria del Mar church boys choir (Escolania). When in 1905, aged 12, he met Lluís Millet, director of...