According to Sagaseta and Taberna (1985), p. 52, María Luisa de Tarazona Beunza, born in Pamplona, was maybe a daughter of the organbuilder Ramón de Tarazona, also born in Pamplona. On January of 1783, she was examined in "órgano, arpa y canto-llano" by Francisco de la Huerta, chapelmaster of the Pamplona Cathedral, because she wanted to be accepted as a nun musician at the Monastery of Santa Clara in Arizkun (Navarra). According to Huerta, she was "bien instruida en todo lo expuesto para poder servir a dicha comunidad".