Sebastián Martínez Verdugo

Sebastián Martínez Verdugo was a Spanish organist and composer in the later Renaissance/early Baroque. Verdugo’s namesake dad was the organist from the Descalzas convent in Madrid at exactly the same time that Tomás Luis de Victoria was maestro di cappella there. In 1594, the youthful Verdugo lost your competition for the post of organist from the Palencia Cathedral to Jerónimo Peraza. Nevertheless, he discovered better fortune in Portugal, where Philip II produced him and another Spaniard the state keyboard players from the royal chapel in 1596. Despite his comfy salary there, actually back pay with a yr, he didn’t appear to adjust well alive in Portugal, came back to Spain 2 yrs later on. In 1600, he became organist in the Cuenca Cathedral, receiving the same placement at Malaga Cathedral in 1607. In the same yr, right now middle-aged, he finally inherited from Bernardo Clavijo del Castillo the positioning in the royal chapel in Madrid that he previously failed to accomplish as a man, and kept the post before end of his existence. His works are the Canta missa de gallo el niño for three and five voices.