Sebastian de Vivanco

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Sebastián de Vivanco (* around 1550 in Ávila ; † October 26, 1622 in Salamanca ) was a Spanish composer of the Renaissance .

Life

It is believed that Sebastián de Vivanco received his musical training as well as his somewhat older contemporary Tomás Luis de Victoria at the Cathedral of Avila. His first known position was that of the music director of Lérida Cathedral . He gave up this post in 1576 to go to the Cathedral of Segovia as Kapellmeister . In 1588 he returned to the Cathedral of Avila as Kapellmeister. In 1602 he finally went to Salamanca , where he became Kapellmeister of the local cathedral and from 1603 also professor of music at the university .

Vivanco is considered to be one of the most capable Spanish composers of his generation and, in particular, an excellent counterpoint artist , while as a harmonist he remained largely stuck to the vocabulary of his time.

Works

  • Liber magnificarum (1607), contains 18 settings of the Magnificat
  • Libro de misas (1608), contains 10 masses :
    • Missa Assumpsit Jesus (5-part)
    • Missa in festo Beata Maria Virgine (4 parts )
    • Missa Beata Virgine in sabbato (4 parts )
    • Missa Crux fidelis (6 parts)
    • Missa Doctor bonus (4-part)
    • Missa In manus tuas (8-part)
    • Missa O quam suavis es, Domine (4-part)
    • Missa quarti toni (4-part)
    • Missa sexti toni (4-part)
    • Missa super octos tonos (4-part)
  • Libro de motetes (1610).
  • Missa Tu es vas electionis
  • Misa para dias feriados
  • Missa de Requiem taciturna

literature

  • Enrique Alberto Arias: The Masses of Sebastián Vivanco (approx. 1550-1622): A Study in the Polyphonic Settings of the Ordinary in Late Renaissance Spain . Dissertation Northwestern University. Evanston 1971.
  • Montague Cantor: The Liber Magnificarum of Sebastian de Vivanco. Dissertation New York University. New York, 1967.
  • Dámaso García Fraile: La musica en la iglesia de Castilla y León. Sebastián de Vivanco (c. 1550–1622), Libro de motetes (1610). Studio and transcription . Fundación Las Edades del Hombre, Salamanca 2001, ISBN 84-88265-91-3 .
  • Robert Stevenson:  Vivanco, Sebastián de. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 17 (Vina - Zykan). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-7618-1137-5 , Sp. 142–143 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)

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personal data
SURNAME Vivanco, Sebastián de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish composer of the Renaissance
DATE OF BIRTH around 1550
PLACE OF BIRTH Ávila
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 1622
Place of death Salamanca