Lucas Fernández (c. 1474 – 1542) was a Spanish dramatist and musician, writer in Leonese language. He was born and educated at Salamanca, and was a professor of music there from 1522. The surviving work of Lucas Fernández consists of six plays. Although showing the influence of his rival Juan del Encina, they are notable for their dialogue, humor, and the effective interleaving of song and music with the action of play. The best of the works is an Easter play ''Auto de la Pasión'', while his ''Dialogo para cantar'' is an early example of the

zarzuela () is a Spanish lyric-dramatic genre that alternates between spoken and sung scenes, the latter incorporating operatic and popular songs, as well as dance. The etymology of the name is uncertain, but some propose it may derive from the name of ...

Leonesisms

Lucas Fernández wrote with a great influence of Leonese language,López Morales, 1969; Weissberger, 2003) like (feminine for "in the"), (masculine for "in the"), (let), (says), (wants), (goes out), and many others.

Biography

Son of Alfonso de Cantalapiedra and María Sánchez, he was at the service of the cathedral; he defeated his admired Juan del Encina in the oppositions to singer of the Cathedral of Salamanca (1498); to it alluded Encina in his Égloga of the great rains. In 1520 he was Abbot of the Church of Santo Tomás in Salamanca. He was professor of music in the University of this city (1522) and appeared in 1533 in the commission of reform of the statutes of the same.

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