Mateu Fletxa el Jove

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Mateu Fletxa el Jove ( cat . : 'the younger'), also ( Spanish ): Mateo Flecha el Joven (* 1530 in Prades (Tarragona) , Baix Camp ; † February 20, 1604 in Sant Pere de la Portella , Berguedà ) was a Catalan musician of the Renaissance and nephew Mateo Flecha (the Elder).

After living in Italy for a while, Mateu Fletxa became the priest of Empress Maria of Spain , wife of Maximilian II , and later cantor of the imperial chapel. After Maximilian's death emperor appointed him Rudolf II. To the abbot of Tihany on the peninsula in the north of Lake Balaton in Hungary . Fletxa visited the Iberian Peninsula in 1570, 1581 and 1586 to recruit new singers for the imperial band.

His most important works were published in Venice and Prague ; Fletxa had visited both cities several times. In Venice in 1568 he published the first book of four- and five-part madrigals , a collection of 31 madrigals. In Prague in 1581 he published three books of polyphonic music: the book on contrapuntal music (lost), Divinarum completarum psalmi (incomplete) and The Ensaladas , dedicated to Joan de Borja . This latter collection contains eight ensaladas by his uncle Mateu Fletxa el Vell, three by himself, two by Pere A. Vila , one by Bartomeu Càrceres, and a chaconne . In 1593 he published a volume of poetry on the occasion of the death of the French Queen Elisabeth of Austria . Two remarkable works, a five-part harmony for five string instruments and a four-part Miserere , have been preserved as original manuscripts. In 1599, Fletxa was taken over by King Philip III. appointed abbot of the monastery of Sant Pere de la Portella ( Comarca Berguedà ), where he spent the last years of his life.

Mateu Fletxa el Jove made the music of his uncle Mateu Fletxa el Vell known and ensured that it was preserved.

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SURNAME Fletxa el Jove, Mateu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Flecha el Joven, Mateo; Flecha, Mateo d. J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catalan composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1530
PLACE OF BIRTH Prades , Baix Camp
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 1604
Place of death Sant Pere de la Portella