Juan García de Salazar (1639-1710)
- Missa de Requiem (en Fa mayor) a 4
Performers: Coro de camara 'Sebastian Durón'; Instrumental ensemble; José María Bаrquín (conductor)
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Spanish composer. He remained in his own immediate family environment
until at least 1650. He was a choirboy at Burgos Cathedral, where he
studied composition with the maestro de capilla Francisco Ruiz
Samaniego. In 1660 he was appointed vice-principal of the choir school
there, under Ruiz Samaniego direction. After short stays as maestro de
capilla first at the collegiate church of Zamora in 1661, then (from
1663) at the cathedral of Burgo de Osma, he entered and won the public
examination for the same post at Zamora Cathedral, where he remained
from 1668 until his death in that city on July 1710. Only a few of his
numerous settings of Spanish texts, and of his compositions in modern
style, are extant, but several a cappella works survive. They consist of
masses, hymns, motets etc., all in the stile antico and yet full of
expression and often quite modern in idiom. They show him to have been a
skilful contrapuntist. His musical language appears to be directly
indebted to the great Spanish polyphonists of the seventeenth century;
moreover, his personality and career pattern situate him in a cultural
setting similar to theirs.
