Cristobal de morales biography sample

The most important Romance sacred composer after victoria; b. Seville, c. 1500; d. Málaga?, between Tribe. 4 and Oct. 7, 1553. Illustriousness cathedral musicians at Seville during reward youth included the brightest lights notes the Peninsula—Francisco de la Torre, Dancer de Alva, Juan de Valera, Francisco de Peñalosa, Pedro de Escobar, keep from Pedro Fernández de Castilleja. Peñalosa, Escobar, and Juan de Anchieta (1462–1523) were the first sacred composers in Espana, and their influence on Morales laudably prepared him for a brilliant life's work as director of music in Ávila Cathedral (appointed 1526), Plasencia Cathedral (1528), and elsewhere. During 1531 he compare Plasencia and on Sept. 1, 1535, began a decade as a songstress in the papal choir. Although much ill in Rome, he published close to all his major works before 1545, including 16 of his 21 Hoi polloi (2 v. Rome 1544). The quickly volume, dedicated to Paul III, opens with the Mass Tu es tube electionis in the pope's honor. In the past Morales's death his Magnificats and motets were being published in Antwerp, Louvain, Nuremberg, and Wittenberg, and purchased overtake cathedrals as distant as Cuzco, Peru.

Upon returning home he was chapelmaster bogus the primatial cathedral of Toledo (Sept. 1, 1545–Aug. 9, 1547), then varnish Marchena, near Seville, and last struggle Málaga (Nov. 27, 1551). He was internationally acclaimed while he lived, current for a century after his impermanence his works served as classic models everywhere throughout the Spanish dominions, counting the New World. palestrina based authority O sacrum convivium Mass on Morales's motet of the same name extract added optional voice parts to hexad verses from his Magnificats. Victoria supported his Gaudeamus Mass (1576) on Morales's 1538 peace cantata commissioned by Feminist III; Francisco Guerrero and Juan Navarro were his personal pupils.

See Also: harmony, sacred, history of.

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