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tower of the Cathedral of Ávila. Picture: A. de Vicente
Documents about Tomás Luis de Victoria in the cathedral of Ávila (1573-1601)

Transcription of sixteen agreements of the chapter of the cathedral of Ávila. Except for one, …

Sept. 11, 2024
Pescado Gate. W. Didot (1798)
Marian confraternity in the puerta del Pescado in Granada

Marian confraternity in the puerta del Pescado in Granada.

Sept. 1, 2024
<em>Indice di tutte l’opere di musica che si truova alla stampa della Pigna</em> (Venecia: Giacomo Vincenzi, 1591)
Works by Francisco Guerrero in the printing press of Giacomo Vincenzi (1591)

Works by Francisco Guerrero in the printing press of Giacomo Vincenzi (1591).

Aug. 27, 2024
Organ of the Monastery of San Zoilo. Gregorio González Roldán (1716)
Organ for the Monastery of San Zoilo in Carrión de los Condes (1716)

In 1716, the Benedictine community of the Monastery of San Zoilo signed a contract with …

Aug. 25, 2024

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First organ to the church of Padules (Almería)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
28-11-2020

The first organ in the church of Padules (Almería) must have been built c. 1762 and was paid exclusively by its membership. The first organist to take charge of it …

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Incorporation of the wind players to the Cathedral of Ávila

Alfonso de Vicente Delgado
21-11-2020

The first news about the hiring and participation of instrumentalists in the festivities of the Cathedral of Ávila dates frim 1520. During the first decades, musicians and groups of musicians …

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Francisco Guerrero's books embarked for the Indies (1601)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
19-11-2020

In 1601, twenty-four volumes with music by Francisco Guerrero were embarked on the ship San Francisco, including sixteen copies of the&nbsp;Liber vesperarum&nbsp;(Rome, 1584). Individually packed in wooden boxes, they left …

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Francisco Guerrero's books embarked for the Indies (1601)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
19-11-2020

In 1601, twenty-four volumes with music by Francisco Guerrero were embarked on the ship San Francisco, including sixteen copies of the&nbsp;Liber vesperarum&nbsp;(Rome, 1584). Individually packed in wooden boxes, they left …

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Organist and singer at the convent of Santa Clara in Trujillo (Perú)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
16-11-2020

Isabel Arias de Bobadilla, born in Cuzco, was an outstanding singer and organist who spent seventy-three of her eighty years in the convents of Poor Clares in the Peruvian cities …

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