Ambrosio Cotes

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Ambrosio Coronado de Cotes (also Ambrosio C. Cotes; * before 1550 in Villena ; † September 9, 1603 in Seville ) was a Spanish conductor and composer.

Life

Ambrosio Cote's family was probably of Basque origin on his father's side and lived in what is now the province of Valencia in the towns of Mogente and Fuenta la Higuera. His maternal great-grandparents came from Villena. His father, Francisco Cotes, came from Fuente la Higuera. He was responsible for the salt flats of the lagoon and married Isabella Sanchez in Vilena in 1547. Ambrosius Cotes was born around 1550.

Ambrosio Cotes studied music with Theatiners in Villena. From 1573 he was a cleric at the local church of Santiago. In 1576 he was appointed Kapellmeister. After Rodrigo de Ceballos' death in 1581, he succeeded him as Kapellmeister at the Capilla Real in Granada. This time was marked by the arguments with the organist Francisco Fernández Palero (1533–1597). Cotes left the Capilla Real in 1596 and was Kapellmeister at the Cathedral of Valencia from 1596 to 1600 . During this time Juan Bautista Comes was one of his students. On September 22nd, 1600 Cotes was appointed to succeed Francisco Guerrero as Kapellmeister at the Cathedral of Seville . He held this position until his death.

Works

29 works by Ambrosio Cotes have come down to us, 25 of them in the archives of the Capilla Real in Granada and four in the archives of the Cathedral of Valencia.

  • 24 motets
    • Angelus suis Deus, motet for four voices, recorded on the CD Ambrosio Cotes: Opera Varia by Ensemble Victoria Musicæ under the direction of Josep R. Gil-Tàrrega. Released by the La Ma De Guido label on May 25, 2004
    • Beatus Laurentius, motet for four voices, recorded on the CD Ambrosio Cotes: Opera Varia
    • Benedico te, Pater, motet for four voices, recorded on the CD Ambrosio Cotes: Opera Varia
    • Filiae Jerusaelem , motet for four voices, recorded on the CD Ambrosio Cotes: Opera Varia
    • Maria, mater gratiae , motet for four voices, recorded on the CD Ambrosio Cotes: Opera Varia
    • Mortuus est Philippus Rex , motet for seven voices, recorded on the CD The Imperial Composers of Charles V & Philip II by the Ensemble Musica Reservata de Barcelona under the direction of Peter Phillips , released on the La Ma De Guido label on March 9, 2010
    • O lux et decus Hispaniae , motet for six voices, recorded on the CD Ambrosio Cotes: Opera Varia
    • Prudentes virgines, motet for four voices, recorded on the CD Ambrosio Cotes: Opera Varia
    • Sacerdos et pontifex , motet for four voices, recorded on the CD Ambrosio Cotes: Opera Varia
    • Veni Sponsa Christi , motet for four voices, recorded on the CD Ambrosio Cotes: Opera Varia
    • Vidi angelum , motet for four voices, recorded on the CD Ambrosio Cotes: Opera Varia
    • Visionem quam vidistis , motet for four voices, recorded on the CD Ambrosio Cotes: Opera Varia
    • 4 canciones for five voices, recorded on the CD Ambrosio Cotes: Opera Varia
  • 3 settings of the Lamentationes
  • Officium defunctorum
  • Missa in Adventu et Quadragesima , for four and five voices, I Kyrie II Gloria III Sanctus IV Agnus Dei recorded on the CD Ambrosio Cotes: Opera Varia

Many other works are lost.

literature

  • José María Soler García: El polifonista villanense Ambrosio Cotes, [1550–1603] Volume 49 of the Publicaciones del Instituto de Estudios Alicantinos . Diputación Provincial, Instituto de Estudios Alicantinos, Alicante 1979
  • Cotes, Ambrosio. In: Mariano Pérez Gutiérrez: Diccionario de la música y los músicos , Volume 1, Ediciones AKAL, 1985 ISBN 978-8-470-90140-9

Web links

Commons : Ambrosio Cotes  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b José María Soler García: El polifonista villanense Ambrosio Cotes, [1550-1603] . In: Diputación Provincial, Instituto de Estudios Alicantinos (ed.): Publicaciones del Instituto de Estudios Alicantinos . tape 49 . Alicante 1979 (Spanish).
  2. ↑ a b c José López-Calo: Cotes, Ambrosio . In: The Oxford Dictionary of Music . Oxford University Press, Oxford January 20, 2001 (English, oxfordmusiconline.com ).
  3. ^ Robert J. Snow: Encomium Musicae . Pendragon Press, 2002, ISBN 978-0-945193-83-8 ( google.de [accessed January 30, 2019]).
  4. ↑ Melania Bucciarelli, Berta Joncus: Music as Social and Cultural Practice: Essays in Honor of Reinhard Strohm . Boydell & Brewer, 2007, ISBN 978-1-84383-317-8 ( google.de [accessed January 30, 2019]).
  5. ^ Robert Stevenson: Spanish Cathedral Music in the Golden Age . University of California Press, 1961 ( google.de [accessed January 30, 2019]).
  6. ^ Robert Stevenson: Spanish Cathedral Music in the Golden Age . University of California Press, 1961 ( google.de [accessed January 30, 2019]).
  7. ^ Mariano Pérez Gutiérrez: Cotes, Ambrosio . In: Diccionario de la música y los músicos . Ediciones AKAL, 1985, ISBN 978-84-7090-140-9 , pp. 313 (Spanish, google.de [accessed January 31, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Cotes, Ambrosio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cotes, Ambrosio Coronado de; Comes, Ambrosio C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish conductor and composer
DATE OF BIRTH before 1550
PLACE OF BIRTH Villena
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1603
Place of death Seville