Juan de Anchieta (1462 – 1523) was a Spanish composer of the Renaissance. Read Full Bio ↴Juan de Anchieta (1462 – 1523) was a Spanish composer of the Renaissance.
Born into a leading Basque family, his mother was a great-aunt of Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus.[1] In 1489 he was appointed to the chapel of Queen Isabella and in 1495 became maestro di capilla to Prince Don Juan, returning to the Queen's service after the Prince's death in 1497, and in 1504 to that of the new Queen, Joanna the Mad. He held various church benefices, from 1518 as Abbot of Arbs, spending his final years in a Franciscan convent he had founded in Azpeitia.
Some thirty of Juan de Anchieta's compositions survive, among them two complete Masses, two Magnificats, a Salve Regina, four attributed Passion settings, with other sacred works and four compositions with Spanish texts. The two Masses and many motets which survive show extensive use of plainsong and much chordal writing. He was among the leading Spanish composers of his generation, writing music for the ample resources of the court chapel of the Catholic Kings.
Born into a leading Basque family, his mother was a great-aunt of Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus.[1] In 1489 he was appointed to the chapel of Queen Isabella and in 1495 became maestro di capilla to Prince Don Juan, returning to the Queen's service after the Prince's death in 1497, and in 1504 to that of the new Queen, Joanna the Mad. He held various church benefices, from 1518 as Abbot of Arbs, spending his final years in a Franciscan convent he had founded in Azpeitia.
Some thirty of Juan de Anchieta's compositions survive, among them two complete Masses, two Magnificats, a Salve Regina, four attributed Passion settings, with other sacred works and four compositions with Spanish texts. The two Masses and many motets which survive show extensive use of plainsong and much chordal writing. He was among the leading Spanish composers of his generation, writing music for the ample resources of the court chapel of the Catholic Kings.
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D. Carter
Clearly this musical score elevates the spirit of human kind and gives insight into an understanding of humanity that has been lost in the modern era of Western European and American Cultures. The elevation of the spiritual to a mystical harmony pervasive over all of the totality of the composition reminds us that our ancestors of the eary fifteenth century were far and away superior in their reverence for creation and all of its harmonic reverences set to elevate the spirit and calm the mind.
Alexandre V
Eis aí um compositor que não conhecia: Juan de Anchieta! Grandioso!
klangschatten
Beautiful music and painting.
Tanja Joeres
Wundervoll wo kann man diese Musik auf CD kaufen? Unfassbar schön ❣️ so als musizieren die Engel Gottes selbst!
RomuloVG Garcimunoz
Superb!
rasamalai
Hello! Excuse me, who is the counter tenor singing on this piece? :)
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Konstantin Roslyakov
Performers, please?
millertj27
Performers?