Urbán de Vargas (1606–1656) was a Spanish

baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

composer.

Life

Urbano Barguilla y de Ripalda was born in 1606 in

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, south of

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. He studied with the ''maestro de capilla'' at

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, Luis Bernardo Jalón, known for his polemic activities and radical views on music. As was common among the chapel masters of the period, Vargas passed the cathedrals of

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, Daroca, Calatayud, the Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar in Zaragoza, and finally the

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, where he died at the age of 50.Antonio Ezquerro Esteban, essay in booklet to Urbán de Vargas, Quicumque.

Capilla Peñaflorida The Capilla Peñaflorida is a Spanish early music group founded in 1985 by Jon Bagüés. The first director was the late José Rada Sereno (1947–2001). Currently musical direction is shared by the founder, the Basque musicologist Jon Bagüés (b. ...

dir. Josep Cabré, NB Musika, 2008 Vargas' music is in a complex polyphonic early baroque idiom. In his life he was highly regarded both as composer and organist working with other important Iberian musicians of the period including

Juan Bautista Comes Juan Bautista Comes (ca. 1582 – 5 January 1643), aka per Valencian spelling Joan Baptista Comes, was a Spanish Baroque composer who was born and died in Valencia. It is known that before 1613 he held posts as ''Maestro de Capilla'' in Lleida at ...

Carlos Patiño Carlos Patiño ( Cuenca 1600Madrid 5 September 1675) was a Spanish Baroque composer. Patiño was a choirboy at Seville Cathedral where he studied with Alonso Lobo. He married in 1622 but his wife's death in 1625 led to his entry into the priesth ...

(1600–1675), and the Portuguese monk Manuel Correia, ''maestro de capilla'' in Zaragoza's other cathedral La Seo. Among his pupils were Miguel Juan Marqués, Lluís Vicenç Gargallo and

Juan Bautista Cabanilles Juan Bautista José Cabanilles (also Juan Bautista Josep, Valencian: Joan) (6 September 1644 in Algemesí near Valencia – 29 April 1712 in Valencia) was a Spanish organist and composer at Valencia Cathedral. He is considered by many to have be ...

Works

Surviving works include: *Misa de la Batalla *

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Vargas, Urban De Spanish Baroque composers 1606 births 1656 deaths Spanish male classical composers 17th-century classical composers 17th-century male musicians