Juan Hidalgo

Around the entire year 1631 Hidalgo was a new player from the harp and harpsichord in the royal chapel in Madrid after getting musical instructions from, without doubt, associates of his family members. He kept the positioning in the royal chapel for the others of his lifestyle, did not keep Madrid, and was honored being a familiar following the Inquisition looked into him. Several well-known musicians had been in the courtroom at Madrid (Galan, del Vado, Marin) but non-e were as preferred as Hidalgo. Nearly all Hidalgo’s compositions had been secular types of opera or villancicos but he also made up public and motets (hardly any). He’d rarely compose for a lot more than four voices and constructed many duets and quartets. From 1650 on, his compositions had been quite definitely in the vein from the Italian operatic design particularly relating to his usage of recitative, aria and arioso. This is his principal contribution to Spanish music: the popularization from the Italian opera designs within the courtroom of Spain. Two of his operas had been “La purpura de la rosa,” and “Los celos hacen estrellas.” The music for the previous has been dropped but the second option was made up for the Queen mother’s birthday and may be the first zarzuela which has survived with the majority of its music.