biography
pronunciation:
[saleenas]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1513–90)
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| biography:
| Composer and musical theoretician, born in Burgos, NC Spain. Although blind from age ten he studied at Salamanca University, before moving to Italy with his patron Cardinal Sarmiento. He was organist at Capilla Real in Naples, Sigiienza Cathedral, Spain (1559-64), and later at Leon Cathedral before returning to Salamanca University (1569), where he became professor of music. His compositions have been lost, but some of his theoretical works have been preserved, particularly his influential essay De musica libri septem (1577), which contains the first collection of Spanish folk songs. |
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