- Juan de Anchieta
Juan de Anchieta (1462 – 1523) was a Spanish
Basque composer of the Renaissance.History
Born into a leading Basque family, his mother was a great-aunt of
Ignatius of Loyola , founder of theSociety of Jesus .cite web | url=http://www.naxos.com/composerinfo/23.htm | title=Naxos.com's Juan de Anchieta page | accessdate=2007-07-27] 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 aFranciscan convent he had founded inAzpeitia .acred Music
Some thirty of Juan de Anchieta's compositions survive, among them two complete Masses, two
Magnificat s, aSalve 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 ofplainsong 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.cite web | url=http://www.hoasm.org/IVL/Anchieta.html | title=HOASM.org's Juan de Anchieta page | accessdate=2007-07-27]References
External links
* [http://www.goldbergweb.com/en/history/composers/10213.php Goldberg's Juan de Anchieta page]
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