Joan Baptista Sanxo i Lliteres (1772-1830)
- Missa de los Angeles à 4 voces, 5to tono ... (1796)
Performers: Zеphyr Voices Unbοund; Rіchаrd Lyοns (conductor)
Further info: A Choir Of Angels II (Mission Music)
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Spanish composer and scholar. Born into a prominent family of musicians,
the first of them was the organist Esteve Sanxo (16th Century). Joan
Baptista Sanxo i Lliteres was the son of Pere Josep Sanxo i Nicolau
(c.1740-1815) and Margarida Lliteres Llinàs. He moved to Palma as a
young teen where he took Holy Orders on 9 February 1791 as a Franciscan
monk and rose in prominence to assume the post of Music Director in the
late 1790s at the prestigious Convent de Sant Francesc. In 1803 he left
Mallorca with his friend Pere Cabot. The two arrived in Mexico on 20
June 1803. After a brief training session in Mexico City at the Mother
House of their Franciscan Missionary Order, the Colegio Apostólico de
San Fernando, they embarked for California, where they landed in
Monterey on 15 August 1804. Sanxo immediately made his way down to
Mission San Antonio, where he then was involved in nearly every aspect
of this thriving culture, including its agricultural production,
architectural construction, and musical performance. Soon, he had
established a choir and orchestra capable of playing music of the
difficulty one would hear in Rome or Paris. As a composer, his 'Misa en
Sol' and 'Missa de los Angeles à 4 voces' (1796) are among his best
works. He also brought to California some of the first samples of
18th-century European music, including sacred plainchant, sacred
polyphony, as well as opera excerpts and instrumental arrangements with
basso continuo. Among the musicians of his family, his greatgrandfather
Pere Sanxo i Sard (c.1684-1755) active in Palma, Antonio Sanxo Sacrer
(fl. 1776-1781) and Jaume Sanxo Melis (1743-1829), violinist and
composer and the most accomplished member of his family.
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