Francisco Guerrero

Spanish composer of the Renaissance

In the history of music, Francisco Guerrero is one of the names that keeps returning.

The record lists Francisco Guerrero as Spanish composer of the Renaissance.

Francisco Guerrero was born at Seville in 1528. His recorded nationality is Crown of Castile.

Music then was written to commission, for a court, a church or a patron, and a composer's freedom was bounded by whoever paid.

He worked as composer and organist.

The instruments recorded are organ.

Performance is the most perishable art and recording the most durable; a career sits between the two.

That the work came out of Crown of Castile shaped it: musical traditions, training institutions and the reach of a recording industry all differ by country.

Francisco Guerrero died in 1599, aged 71. The recordings and scores remain, which is the only durable form a musical life takes.

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