query: country_of_citizenship josep mestres quadreny
supports: The Cardener is a river in Catalonia, Spain. 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). Manresa is the capital of the Comarca of Bages, located in the geographic centre of Catalonia, Spain, 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. Catalonia is an autonomous community of Spain, located on the northeastern extremity of the Iberian Peninsula. It is designated as a "nationality" by its Statute of Autonomy. Catalonia consists of four provinces: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona. The capital and largest city is Barcelona, the second-most populated municipality in Spain and the core of the seventh-most populous urban area in the European Union. Bages is a comarca (county) in the center of Catalonia, Spain. It includes a "subcomarca", Lluçanès. 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 .
candidates: catalonia spain
answer: spain