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Francisco Javier García Fajer, known as el Españoleto, was born in Nalda (La Rioja) in december 1730. He was boychoir in Zaragoza. Then he traveled to Italy and studied in the Pietà dei Turquini in Naples. García Fajer was chapel master in Terni (Umbria). He composed several operas in Italy, as La Finta schiava (Roma, 1754), La pupilla (Roma, 1755), Lo sculptore deluso (Roma, 1756) and Pompeo in Armenia (Roma, 1755). He also composed oratories in Italy as Tobia (1752) and La Susanna (1754). In 1756 he was designed chapel master of La Seo Cathedral in Zaragoza, where he worked until his death in 1809. His work is abundant and it is preserved in Spanish and Iberoamerican archives.
The Canción a 5 is about 15 minutes in length and it is written for choir SSATB, two violins, viola and cello.