(Pa’-dro da Es-ko-bär’) c. 1465–c. 1535 Portuguese composer Although Portuguese by birth, Escobar spent his career in Spain, including 10 years in the chapel of Isabella of Aragon and a stint as maestro de capilla at Seville Cathedral. The date of his death is unknown; he was last heard of around 1535. His motet ‘Clamabat autem mulier’ shows him to ...
unaccompanied voices. This melancholy is epitomized in his set of variations Lachrimae (1604). Recommended Recording: Lachrimae, Hespèrion XX (Auvidis Astrée) Introduction | Renaissance | Classical Personalities | Pedro de Escobar | Renaissance | Classical ...
(Pe-âr’ de La Rü) c. 1460–1518 Flemish composer Like Isaac, La Rue joined the Habsburg court after spending some years working in Italy. He served under four rulers: Maximilian, Philip le Beau (La Rue may have composed his Requiem for him), Margaret and Charles (the future Emperor Charles V). His works do not show the influence of Italian music, ...
City had a cathedral and a bishop. Music, an important tool of conversion, took root and flourished. Manuscripts from sixteenth-century Mexico include music by Spanish composers such as Escobar and Morales. Among music history’s eeriest artefacts of cultural exchange are two hymns in honour of the Virgin, very Spanish in sound, with texts in Nahuatl, the ...
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