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<em>San Miguel</em>. Torcuato Ruiz del Peral. Chruch of San Miguel (Granada)
Confraternities at the church of San Miguel in Granada

Confraternities at the church of San Miguel in Granada.

May 9, 2022
The Gardano music printing firms
Works by Francisco Guerrero printed by the Gardano family in Venice (1570)

Works by Francisco Guerrero printed by the Gardano family in Venice (1570).

April 29, 2022
College of San Buenaventura (coat of arms of fray Pedro Gonzalez de Mendoza)
Musical activity of the students of the College of San Buenaventura in Pastrana (Guadalajara)

In 1628, Fray Pedro González de Mendoza, bishop of Sigüenza and fifth son of Ruy …

April 28, 2022
<em>Blind musician<em>. George de La Tour
The indenture of the blind master Martín de Zarajales and his blind pupil Juan de Aldeanueva in Guadalajara (1531)

The blind musician Martín de Zarajales agrees to teach the apprentice Juan de Aldeanueva, also …

April 28, 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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