Joaquín García de Antonio anchís'' ( in

Anna, Valencia Anna () is a municipality in Spain, located within Canal de Navarrés which is an administrative subdivision (called a ''comarca'') in the Province of Valencia. That province is in the middle of the autonomous Valencian Community The Valen ...

– 15 September 1779 in

Las Palmas Las Palmas (, ; ), officially Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, is a Spain, Spanish city and capital of Gran Canaria, in the Canary Islands, on the Atlantic Ocean. It is the capital (jointly with Santa Cruz de Tenerife), the most populous city in th ...

) was a Valencian composer and

maestro de capilla (, also , ) from German ''Kapelle'' (chapel) and ''Meister'' (master)'','' literally "master of the chapel choir" designates the leader of an ensemble of musicians. Originally used to refer to somebody in charge of music in a chapel, the term ha ...

. His

cantata A cantata (; ; literally "sung", past participle feminine singular of the Italian verb ''cantare'', "to sing") is a vocal composition with an instrumental accompaniment, typically in several movements, often involving a choir. The meaning of ...

s are in the Italian style but his

villancico The ''villancico'' (Spanish, ) or vilancete (Portuguese, ) was a common poetic and musical form of the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America popular from the late 15th to 18th centuries. Important composers of villancicos were Juan del Encina, Pedro ...

s adopt a purely Hispanic vernacular style.Paul R. Laird ''Towards a history of the Spanish villancico'' 1997- Page 117 " Representative vernacular religious works by the composer are available in othar Siemens HernándezJoaquin Garcia: Tonadas, villancicos y Cantadas para voz sola concertada con instrumentos y bajo continuo»"

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