Ginés de Boluda (1545 in

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– c. 1606) was a Spanish church musician and composer. He was maestro de capilla'' at the Cathedral of Cádiz by 1578, taking up the same post at

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in that year succeeding

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. He applied for the post at the

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the year after (1579) but instead resigned his position at Cuenca; he then won the post of ''maestro de capilla'' at the

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, succeeding Andrés Torrentes who died in September 1580, and remained at Toledo for 13 years from early 1581.Soterrana Aguirre Rincon, ''Gines de Boluda (ca. 1545-des. 1604): Biografia y obra musical'' Valladolid, 1995 After his retirement in 1593, he seems to have given up his career as a professional musician; in 160 he refused the position of ''maestro de capilla'' to the royal chapel in Granada. He is last recorded in Seville in 1604, and is assumed to have died soon afterwards. A comparatively minor representative of the Golden Age of Spanish cathedral

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, he was nevertheless active in providing music for Toledo himself - all his surviving works date from his time in Toledo - and by procuring for the cathedral a number of important volumes of music, predominantly by Spanish composers. All his extant works are

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. Boluda produced at least two '' In exitu israel'' settings based on the ''

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'' (ninth tone), the popularity of which evidently eclipsed the composer by several generations.Mattias Lundberg, Tonus Peregrinus: The History of a Psalm-tone and Its Use in Polyphonic Music. Ashgate, 2012 Boluda, with Navarro, is a Vespers composer ''par excellence'', his output comprising almost exclusively psalm and

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magnifies

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settings.

Compositions

From the mass book of Toledo, Codex 35, edited by Michael Noone: *Ginés de Boluda, ''Missa sobre Ut re mi fa sol la a 5.'' London: Mapa Mundi

Recordings

*Ginés de Boluda, ''Jesu corona, Sanctorum meritis, Misa de Feria,'' et al. Capilla Antigua de Chinchilla, Ars Harmonica.

References

1545 births 1606 deaths Spanish classical composers Spanish male classical composers Renaissance composers {{Spain-composer-stub