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Church of Santa Cruz in Madrid
Hiring of a group of minstrels by the confraternity of the Holy Sacrament of the church of Santa Cruz in Madrid (1631)

On 10 October 1631, the confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament of the church of Santa …

May 26, 2024
Little cloister. Monastery of the Cartuja in Granada
Francisco Guerrero in the treatise Historia y origen de la música y canto llano by Juan Sánchez Vidal (1755)

In the middle of the 18th century, the figure of Francisco Guerrero was still highly …

May 24, 2024
Church of the Monastery of Descalzas Reales
Villancicos composed for the religious profession of nuns at the convent of Descalzas Reales in Madrid (1708)

Villancicos composed for the religious profession of nuns at the convent of Descalzas Reales in …

May 22, 2024
Signature of Diego López
Contracts of Diego Lopez and Enrique Franco for the tuning and maintenance of the organs in Seville Cathedral (1594)

On 3 September 1594, the organ builders Diego López and Enrique Franco signed the notarial …

May 19, 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 Liber vesperarum (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 Liber vesperarum (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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