Everything about Francisco De Pe Alosa totally explained
Francisco de Peñalosa (c.
1470 –
April 1,
1528) was a
Spanish composer of the early
Renaissance.
Life
He was born in
Talavera de la Reina in the province of
Toledo. He spent most of his career in
Seville, serving as the
maestro di capilla, though he also spent time in
Burgos, and three years in
Rome at the papal chapel (
1518-
1521). He died in Seville.
Music and influence
Peñalosa was one of the most famous Spanish composers of the generation before
Cristóbal de Morales, and his compositions were highly regarded at the time. Unfortunately for him, his music wasn't widely distributed; he didn't benefit from the invention of
printing, since he mostly remained in Spain, away from cities such as
Venice and
Antwerp which were the first centers of printed music. Later generations of Spanish composers—
Guerrero, Morales,
Victoria—went to
Italy for parts of their careers, where their compositions were printed and were as widely distributed as the music of the
Franco-Flemish composers who dominated music in Europe in the
16th century.
Peñalosa wrote
masses,
Magnificat settings,
motets and
hymns. Eleven secular compositions have survived, including a
quodlibet for six voices. Peñalosa was evidently fond of
contrapuntal puzzles and canons, as evidenced by the quodlibet, and by the Agnus Dei of his
Missa Ave Maria peregrina, which combines a
plainsong tune with a
retrograde (backwards) version of a famous secular song by
Hayne van Ghizeghem.
One of his motets (
Sancta mater istud agas) was long assumed to be by
Josquin Desprez, which indicates both the stylistic similarity of their music and the high quality of Peñalosa's.
References and further reading
- Article "Francisco de Peñalosa," in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie. 20 vol. London, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1980. ISBN 1561591742
- Gustave Reese, Music in the Renaissance. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1954. ISBN 0393095304
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