Plaça of Felix Billet (2009)
Plaza Lluis Millet next to Palau de la Musica Catalana - Near Metro Urquinaona.
Some from Barcelona has managed to be taken the outrages humor corrupt "Case Felix Millet " and renamed the Plaza Lluis Millet a few meters from Palau de la Música c on the name of Felix Billet ( bitllet is Castilian ticket) with a flawless copy of street sign included.
The now infamous Felix Millet was a businessman and a renowned the most influential personalities of Catalunya for decades. Was Catalan Choir Director from 1951 to 1967 and founder and first president of the Foundation Palau de la Música where diverted according to police investigations about 10 million for personal expenses including luxury Real estate reforms and exotic family travel.
Millet knew how to stay in power to the point of how good a game funded early independence - The late IP Angel Colom - and became a part of the advisory board of the Institut Catalunya Futur, a group linked to the FAES of José María Aznar. All this without giving up positions within the insurance company Agrupació Mutual or Foundation FC Barcelona.
But as has been the performance of his grandson, worth remembering the musician Lluis Millet , the man who co-created Amadeu Vives the Orfeo Català marveled after watching the performances of several choral societies in Europe during the International Exhibition in Barcelona in 1888.
son of a wealthy merchant captain did business in America, felt from an early musical interests. confronts his family I wanted him to become an accountant and diligently pursued his dream of becoming a musician working in various music stores of the time and playing piano on several Barcelona cafes, places where the performances were common. Become a successful pianist in the English Café de la Calle Fernando went to work with a quartet of musicians in the Café Pelayo near Plaza Catalunya . was there that he befriended Amadeu Vives with the founding in 1891 that would end the Orfeo Català with the hope of reviving Catalan folk music.
In the shop was here in the late nineteenth work Lluis Millet as an apprentice. No name was Beethoven House but it was also Music
The central Fernando Street, where Lluis Millet started playing in the English Café spent
Lluis Millet died in 1941 and would take years after a Master Plaza on behalf of Millet and a statue, all within meters from the stunning Palau of Catalan Music from the choir that momentum in 1908 and since 1997 is a World Heritage Site by Unesco . Today days is common to find many streets and schools to his name.
His grandson also go down in history, in this case as caganer Christmas Star 2009, an achievement to live up to its merits .
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