Francisco de Peņalosa was a Spanish master roughly contemporary to Josquin who served in the court of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain; he joined the service of the royal chapel about seven years after Ferdinand and Isabella sent Christopher Columbus to "sail the ocean blue" and was still serving as a canon in the Cathedral of Seville when he died in 1528. Peņalosa is reckoned by some as the greatest Spanish composer of his age, which included other worthy figures such as Juan del Encina, Juan de Anchieta, and Pablo Escobar; ...
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Francisco de Peņalosa was a Spanish master roughly contemporary to Josquin who served in the court of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain; he joined the service of the royal chapel about seven years after Ferdinand and Isabella sent Christopher Columbus to "sail the ocean blue" and was still serving as a canon in the Cathedral of Seville when he died in 1528. Peņalosa is reckoned by some as the greatest Spanish composer of his age, which included other worthy figures such as Juan del Encina, Juan de Anchieta, and Pablo Escobar; Spanish chroniclers who lived in the generation after Peņalosa insisted he was greater than Josquin himself, and for decades Peņalosa's motet Sancta mater istud agas was mistakenly accepted as the work of Josquin. It's no surprise, as nearly half the works attributed at one time or another to Josquin have proven the work of others. However, there remains the knotty question as to what really belongs to Peņalosa, and Pro Cantione Antiqua, in their Helios recording of The Complete...
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