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convent de Santa Helena do Monte Calvário. Picture by David Freitas (1960)
Évora
Villancicos composed for the religious profession of nuns at the convent of Santa Helena do Monte Calvário in Evora

Villancicos composed for the religious profession of nuns at the convent of Santa Helena do …

April 21, 2024
<em>View taken from above the bullring</em> (detail). Alfred Guesdon (c. 1855)
Granada
Festival organised by the Real Maestranza of Granada on the occasion of the reception of Agustín de Valdivia as an elder brother (1767)

Antonio Soriano, chapel master of the Collegiate Church of El Salvador, composed the march La …

April 17, 2024
Title page. <em>El viage de Hierusalem</em> (1594) [E-Mrae, 14-XI-37]
Barcelona
First Barcelona edition of El viage de Hierusalem by Francisco Guerrero (1594)

First Barcelona edition of El viage de Hierusalem by Francisco Guerrero (1594).

April 12, 2024
Church of San Lorenzo
Valladolid
Will of the ministril Francisco González Dávila (1654)

The will of the ministril and dulcian player Francisco González Dávila provides us with his …

April 9, 2024

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Passions and Exultet iam angelica in the church of San Miguel

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada TGN
April 11, 2017
passions Exsultet iam angelica singer AAT church of San Miguel
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Alonso Lobo’s repertoire for the Holy Week

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
April 10, 2017
passions lamentations Miserere mei Deus (psalm 51) ferial Mass Pueri hebraeorum (motet) In exitu Israel (psalm 113) Christus factus est mapping Francisco Guerrero Alonso Lobo de Borja (composer, chapel master) Francisco Guerrero (composer, chapel master) Luis Bernardo Jalón (composer, chapel master) José Muñoz de Montserrat (composer, organist) Juan de Osorio (choir chaplain, presbiter, copyist) cathedral of Santa María de la Sede cathedral of Sevilla. Choir cathedral of Seville. Crossing
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Passions and lamentations repertoire in the capilla real (16th and 17 centuries)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada TGN
April 8, 2017
passions lamentations Ambrosio de Cotes (chapel master, composer) Manuel Leitão de Avilez (composer, chapel master) royal chapel capilla real. High choir
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Organist of the convent of La Merced (1679)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
April 8, 2017
to play the organ entrance examination Juan Muñoz (organist) convent of Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes (Calced Mercedarians)
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The sound of water in the Carvajales palace

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada TGN
April 4, 2017
sound of the water Francisco de Carvajal y Manrique Salazar y Luna (mayor of Granada, 1st Count of Torrejón) Carvajales palace
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Agreement between music chapels in Sevilla (1688)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
April 3, 2017
agreement between music chapels Lucas de la Piedra (chapel master, succentor) Francisco Hidalgo (choir boy, singer) Juan Conejero (alto) Bartolomé Bernal (musician) José de Espinosa (musician) Lucas de Alvarado (dulcian player) Andrés Martín de la Cueva (alto) Sebastián Ramos Tamariz (musician) Andrés Fernández Maldonado (musician) Diego Ángel Moris (musician) Antonio de Haro y Alcaraz (musician) (Pedro Simón de la Peña (bariton) Agustín de Torres Gallego (musician) Bernardo José de Vargas (musician) Juan de Cortabaría (musician) Pedro Díaz PImienta (tenor) Juan Antonio Cimbrón (alto) Antonio Fuster (musician) Melchor de los Reyes Calderón (chapel master) Diego Gallo (singer) Esteban de la Peña (alto) music chapel of the church of San Miguel (Seville) music chapel of the church of Santa María Magdalena (Seville) music chapel of the collegiate church of San Salvador (Seville) church of San Miguel
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Organ for the church of Sagrado Corazón de Jesús (1899)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada TGN
March 29, 2017
organ AAT organ repair Achile Ghys Langie (organ builder) Pedro Ghys (organ builder) church of Sagrado Corazón de Jesús (Jesuits)
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Organ of the oratory of San Felipe Neri (1763)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada TGN
March 26, 2017
organ AAT Salvador Pabón y Valdés (organ builder) organ builder AAT oratory of Nuestra Señora de los Dolores (Oratorians)
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Organ of the church of San Juan de Dios (c. 1922)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada TGN
March 25, 2017
organ AAT Pedro Ghys (organ builder) hospital of San Juan de Dios
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Piano by Juan del Mármol (1790)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
March 23, 2017

On March 16, 2017, one of the surviving pianos of the builder Juan del Mármol, built in his Sevillian workshop in 1790, was auctioned.

piano AAT Juan del Mármol (harpsichord and piano maker) workshop of Juan del Mármol
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