Juan Vasquez

A chapel singer from boyhood, Spanish composer Juan Vásquez remaining couple of traces of himself beyond some important published choices of music, the majority of it secular. Vásquez was created sometime around 1500; his engagement in 1511 like a “contralto” in the cathedral of Plasencia shows that he was still a son in those days. He doesn’t come in any other information for nearly twenty years. In past due 1530 he arises at Badajoz Cathedral, teaching plainchant towards the choirboys. The entire year 1539 discovers him performing in Palencia Cathedral; he appears to have attended Madrid in 1541, but by 1545 he was back provincial Badajoz as the cathedral’s chapel professional. In 1551, he was over the payroll of Seville’s Don Antonio de Zuñiga, to whom Vásquez devoted his collection that calendar year of Villancicos I canciones. It’s believed that Vásquez continued to be in Seville until his loss of life, which may have already been around 1560. His lone surviving function of sacred music may be the Plan defunctorum of 1556; the music uses both plainchant and polyphony, along with his greatest and most comprehensive usage of polyphony found in the Requiem from that collection. The majority of Vásquez’s compositions, though, are secular villancicos, using text messages by leading Spanish poets of your day. Most of them likewise incorporate folk poetry and allude to Spanish folk melody styles, plus they appear to have been very popular through the composer’s lifetime.