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Plan of La Coruña. Juan de Santáns y Tapia (1639)
Inés Bermúdez, a singer in independent musical ensembles and at performance venues in La Coruña (c. 1689)

Inés Bermúdez was a Galician singer and actress who was active in the last quarter …

Oct. 5, 2026
Choir of Zamora Cathedral. Picture by Agustín Ruiz Morilla
Incorporation of the wind players to the musical resources of the Zamora cathedral (1555)

A lawsuit brought by the chapter of Zamora Cathedral against the ministril Pedro de Nieva …

Sept. 30, 2026
The original location of the altar of San Isidoro and San Leandro
Burials and endowments of the altar of San Isidoro and San Leandro in Córdoba Cathedral (1471)

On 13 May 1471, the chapter of Córdoba Cathedral granted the prebendary Juan García de …

Sept. 25, 2026
Cathedral of El Burgo de Osma
Documents about Tomás Luis de Victoria in the cathedral of El Burgo de Osma (1590-1628)8

Three chapter acts and an accounting entry record the acquisition of several publications by Victoria. …

Sept. 22, 2026

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Works by Francisco Guerrero in Turin Cathedral

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Sept. 18, 2026

The Archivio Capitolare di Torino holds an interesting copy of Francisco Guerrero’s Missarum liber secundus, to the end of which nine handwritten folios containing three polyphonic works were added; these …

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A New Organ for the Italian Hospital in Madrid: The Contract of Domingo Mendoza (1691)

Alfonso de Vicente Delgado, Roberto Quirós Rosado
Aug. 22, 2026

In 1691, the organ builder Domingo Mendoza was contracted to build a new organ for the Church of San Pedro y San Pablo, attached to the Hospital de los Italianos …

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