Francisco José de Castro (c.1670-c.1730)
- Concerti accademici a quattro, cioe un'oboe, due violini e violone
con la parte per il cembalo consecrati all'Illustrissimo Signore Carlo
da Persico dall'Accademico Formato, Opera Quarta (1708)
Performers: Collegium Instrumentale
Further info: Conciertos académicos de Francisco José de Castro
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Spanish composer. He was a Jesuit novice, educated at the Collegio dei
Nobili di San Antonio Viennese in Brescia, where he studied music with
the composer and organist Paris Francesco Alghisi. He was sponsored as a
member of the Accademia dei Formati by Count Cayetano Giovanelli, to
whom he dedicated his first publication, 'Trattenimenti armonici da
camera a tre, due violini, violoncello, o cembalo ... opera prima'
(Bologna, 1695). Like Castro's other three publications, the
Trattenimenti armonici were issued under the pseudonym ‘Accademico
Formato’. No exemplars of opp.2 and 3 are known; op.4 is a set of
'Concerti accademici a quattro, cioe un'oboe, due violini e violone con
la parte per il cembalo ... Opera Quarta' (Bologna, 1708). He was one of
the few Spanish composers of this period who cultivated the
non-religious instrumental music genre. He was not related to Spanish
playwright Francisco de Castro (1672-1713).
