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Saint-Jean-de-Latran street (1609)
Works by Francisco Guerrero printed by Nicolas du Chemin in Paris (1565/1566)

Works by Francisco Guerrero printed by Nicolas du Chemin in Paris (1565/1566).

May 21, 2022
Nave of the church of Nuestra Señora del Rosario in Güéjar Sierra (Granada). Picture by Javier González Ruano
Repair of the organ of the church of Nuestra Señora del Rosario in Güejar Sierra (1777)

At the beginning of January 1777, the organ builder Salvador Pabón y Valdés dismantled, reformed …

May 15, 2022
<em>Turnierbuch</em>, fols. 56-57
The soundscape of the tournament of the Honourable Passage at the bridge of the Órbigo Hospital (1434)

In the Jacobean year of 1434, the Leonese knight Suero de Quiñones obtained permission from …

May 9, 2022

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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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