Manuel Joseph de Quirós

Manuel Joseph de Quirós (* approx. 1690; † 1765 ) was a Guatemalan composer and conductor .

Life

Manuel Joseph de Quirós was born in Santiago de Guatemala (now Antigua Guatemala ), the then capital of Central America . He received his musical training as an apprentice and later as a journeyman in the cathedral . He was later accepted into the Franciscan Order. He managed the publishing house of the Franciscans in his native city, where he published important theological and philosophical works until on March 7, 1738 by Bishop Pedro Pardo de Figueroa (1683-1751) to the conductor was appointed the cathedral. He was to hold this office until his deathExercise 1765 . In November 1745, when the diocese of Guatemala was elevated to an archdiocese , Quirós directed the musical organization of the festivities. His fame spread beyond the borders of the empire (the so-called Reyno de Guatemala); he was the first composer in the New World to receive an excellent review by Antonio de Paz y Salgado in a publication published in Mexico City in 1747 . Among his apprentices and journeymen, his nephew Rafael Antonio Castellanos stood out, who after the death of Quirós also succeeded him as conductor of the cathedral. As a composer , Quirós cultivated the Spanish baroque style, with numerous Villancicos for the individual festivals of the Catholic church year , as well as liturgical compositions based on Latin texts.

Works

Villancicos in Spanish:

• ¡Qué bien!
• ¡Ay Jesús!
• Hoy que las sacras macaws
• Vagelillo que al viento
• Jesús, Jesús y lo que subes
• A el pan de los cielos the adoraciones
• Yo la tengo de cantar
• Ay niña bella
• Venid, venid a las aras de Dios y de Juan
• Oigan los triunfos
• Joseph Antonio, tus dos nombres
• Clarines suaves
• Un hombre Dios
• Oygan una xacarilla
• Cantad jilguerillos
• Oh admirable sacramento
• Digo a Siola Negla (1736)
• Luz a luz, y gracia a gracia
• Jesuclisa Magdalena (1745)
• Pues que de Pascuas estamos (1745)
• Vengo turo Flaciquillo (1746)
• Amotinados los negros
• Lucid questioning pink
• Cándidos cisnes

Works on Latin texts:

• Sanctus Deus
• Cor mundum
• Liberame
• Auditi meo
• Iod manum suam
• Parce mihi domine
• Laudate pueri dominum

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• Antonio de Paz y Salgado, Las luces del cielo y la Iglesia difundidas en el emispherio de Guathemala . Mexico City: Imprenta del Superior Gobierno, 1747.
• Dieter Lehnhoff , Creación musical en Guatemala . Guatemala City : University of Rafael Landívar u. Fundación G&T Continental, Editorial Galería Guatemala, 2005 , pp. 69–84. ISBN 99922-704-7-0 .
• Dieter Lehnhoff , "Quirós, Manuel Joseph de". Diccionario de la Música Española e Hispanoamericana , 10 vol. (Madrid: Sociedad General de Autores y Editores, 2000).
• Dieter Lehnhoff , Música de la Época Colonial en Guatemala . Antigua Guatemala: CIRMA, 1984.
• Alfred E. Lemmon, ed. Music From Eighteenth-Century Guatemala . South Woodstock, Vermont: Plumsock Mesoamerican Studies, 1986.
• Robert M. Stevenson, "Guatemala Cathedral to 1803," Inter-American Music Review II / 2 (Spring-Summer 1980): 27-72.