We have published in these volumes sacred works by the famous harpist and composer Juan Hidalgo Polanco (1614-1685). The present volume contains tonos or villancicos for one, two, three and four voice...
José de Nebra was born in Calatayud in 1702. At the age of 17 he was already working in Madrid as organist at the Monastery of the Descalzas Reales. In the 1720s he began to compose for Madrid's publi...
The Requiem mass for three choirs with violins and flutes is one of the few preseved works for large ensemble composed by Sebastián Durón. Like in other works by Duron, the instruments are mixed with...
The mass «a la moda francesa» by Sebastián Durón was composed probably during the first years of the 18th century. It could be composed to please the new Borbon king, Philip V, after his accession to...
The Mass «a la moda valenciana» by Sebastián Durón is written for 10 voices distributed in three choirs. The first choir is for two soloists sopranos. Precisely, the epigraph «a la moda valenciana» se...
Although Antonio Literes is mainly known for his theatre music, we know that he composed abundant religious music for the Royal Chapel in Madrid, as witnessed, for example, by the works preserved in t...
These volumes are a compilation of villancicos by José de Torres, organist at the Spanish Royal Chapel since 1687, and later on chapelmaster, from 1720 until his death in 1738. Due to the positions he...
