Rodrigo de Ceballos (also Çavallos, Cevallos, Zaballos; c.1525-c.1581) was a Spanish composer.
He was born in
Aracena
Aracena () is a town and municipality located in the province of Huelva, south-western Spain. , the city has a population of 7,814 inhabitants.
The town derived its name from the Sierra de Aracena, which is part of the Sierra Morena system.
Arac ...
(
Huelva
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), and was ordained a
priest
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in
Seville
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in 1556. He was named ''
maestro di cappella
(, 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 ...
'' in
Málaga
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in 1554, in the cathedral of
Córdoba in 1556, and in
Royal Chapel of Granada
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in 1561 until is death in 1581.
He is among the composers of the Andalusian school, alongside better-known composers such as
Francisco Guerrero Francisco Guerrero is the name of:
*Francisco Guerrero (composer) (1528–1599), Spanish composer of the Renaissance
* Francisco Guerrero (politician) (1811–1851), Alcalde of San Francisco
*Francisco Guerrero Marín (1951–1997), Spanish composer ...
(who, with Pedro Fernández de Castilleja, gave him his
holy orders) or
Cristobal de Morales. His polyphonic works, preserved in various Spanish and Latin American cathedrals and
monasteries
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, are often confused with those of
Francisco de Ceballos, who was maestro at
Burgos Cathedral
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from 1535 to his death in 1571.
[Hans Federico Neuman ''Introducción a la música española del Renacimiento'' p46]
Works
79 works of Rodrigo's are known to survive; these include 39
motet
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s, three
mass
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es, eight
psalm
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s for
Vespers
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, six
hymn
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s, eight settings of the ''
Magnificat
The Magnificat (Latin for "y soul
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magnifies he Lord
He or HE may refer to:
Language
* He (pronoun), an English pronoun
* He (kana), the romanization of the Japanese kana へ
* He (letter), the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets
* He (Cyrillic), a letter of the Cyrillic script called ''He'' ...
) is a canticle, also known as the Song of Mary, the Canticle of Mary and, in the Eastern Christianity, Byzantine tradition, the Ode of the Theotokos (). It is traditionally incorporated ...
'', a setting of
Compline
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The English wo ...
, and seven secular pieces.
Recordings
* ''Rodrigo de Ceballos – Lamentaciones''
Ensemble Gilles Binchois, dir
Dominique Vellard Dominique Vellard (born 1953) is a French tenor and specialist in medieval music. In 1979 he founded the Ensemble Gilles Binchois, a leading ensemble in the performance of Ars Nova music. He is also a composer.
Selected discography
Harmonic:
*Gre ...
. Alma Viva DS0136
Anthologies:
* ''Song of Songs''
Stile Antico (early music vocal ensemble)
''Stile antico'' (literally "ancient style", ), is a term describing a manner of musical composition from the sixteenth century onwards that was historically conscious, as opposed to ''stile moderno'', which adhered to more modern trends. ''Prima ...
* ''Canticum Canticorum: Spanish polyphonic settings from the Song of Songs''
Orchestra of the Renaissance dir
Richard Cheetham (conductor),
Michael Noone
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Noone is from Greystones, County Wicklow. He was educated at Presentation College, Bray where he played in the ...
.
* ''El siglo de Oro: Spanish Sacred Music of the Renaissance''
London Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble,
Pro Cantione Antiqua
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, dir.
Bruno Turner
Bruno Turner (born 7 February 1931) is a British musicologist, choral conductor, broadcaster, publisher and businessman. His scholarship and recordings have focused on early music, especially of Spanish polyphony.
Biography
Turner was born in Lo ...
.
* ''Medieval & Renaissance Gardens In Music''
Orlando Consort The Orlando Consort is a British vocal consort which is best known for performing Renaissance choral music one voice to a part. The Consort was founded in 1988 as part of the activities of the Early Music Network of Great Britain, a forerunner of th ...
References
External links
Biographyin several languages
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Renaissance composers
Spanish classical composers
Spanish male classical composers
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