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Main chapel of León Cathedral. Interior.
Documents about Tomás Luis de Victoria in the cathedral of León (1591-1602)

Transcription of four chapter agreements and an inventory of singing books from the Cathedral of …

April 11, 2026
Chapel of the Conversión de San Pablo. Cathedral of Cordoba
Foundation and endowment of the medieval chapel of the Conversión de San Pablo in Córdoba Cathedral (1387)

In 1387, Elfa de la Torre, widow of Pedro Muñiz de Godoy, Master of the …

April 7, 2026
Customs House in Cádiz
English keyboard instruments at the Customs House in Cádiz (1794)

The records of royal orders for the government of the Customs Office of Cádiz, corresponding …

March 30, 2026
Old fortress
From Venice to Marseille with a stopover in Livorno. Fifteenth stage of Francisco Guerrero's journey to Jerusalem (1589)

Francisco Guerrero and his pupil Francisco Sánchez must have set out from Venice in early …

March 25, 2026

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First organ to the church of Padules (Almería)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Nov. 28, 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
Nov. 21, 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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Organist and singer at the convent of Santa Clara in Trujillo (Perú)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Nov. 16, 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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