Introduction

Biography

Salomón was the son of Sal­o­món Mus­si­ett and Ber­ta Ca­na­les, and hus­band of Gladys Le-Fort (mar­ried 1958).

At age 11, he was di­rect­ing a 40-voice child­ren’s choir, and be­came a church or­gan­ist the next year.

He earned a schol­ar­ship to the Nor­mal School, where he stu­died pia­n­o, vio­lin, mu­sic the­ory, and choir di­rec­tion. While still in school, he di­rect­ed choirs all ov­er San­ti­a­go.

He be­gan teach­ing el­e­men­ta­ry school after gra­du­at­ing at age 18. He al­so played the or­gan and di­rect­ed the choir at the First Bap­tist Church of San­ti­a­go. He lat­er taught li­te­ra­ture, math, French, and mu­sic at the Bap­tist Theo­lo­gic­al Se­mi­na­ry of Chi­le.

He lat­er moved to Ar­gen­ti­na, where he di­rect­ed the 250 voice Unit­ed Choir of Cor­do­ba for the Bil­ly Gra­ham Ev­an­ge­li­cal Cru­sades. He re­turned to Chile and be­came Na­tion­al Mu­sic Pro­mo­ter for the se­mi­na­ry.

He was one of the first to com­pile and tran­scribe Chi­le­an folk songs on pa­per. While teach­ing at the Ex­per­i­ment­al School for Girls, he pub­lished ov­er 20 works, in­clud­ing song books for po­pu­lar and evan­gel­i­cal mu­sic. Some were na­tion­al best sell­ers, and oth­ers were used as sup­ple­ment­al mu­sic edu­ca­tion texts.

In 1974, he re­ceived his de­gree in Phil­o­so­phy and Ed­u­cat­ion with hon­ors from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Chi­le, where he taught Mu­sic Edu­ca­tion Meth­od­ol­o­gy, Phi­lo­so­phy and Edu­ca­tion, and Pe­da­go­gy.

He moved to El Pa­so, Tex­as, in 1981, where he worked at the Ca­sa Bau­tis­ta de Pub­li­ca­ci­o­nes for 18 years. He al­so served as co-pas­tor at the Igle­sia Bau­tis­ta El Bu­en Pas­tor. Two of his child­ren’s mu­sic books were adopt­ed as sup­ple­ment­al texts for el­e­men­ta­ry schools in El Pa­so.