Alonso de Mondéjar

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Alonso de Mondéjar (16th century), was a Spanish Renaissance composer. Mondéjar began, as a singer, to form part of the royal Castilian Chapel on August 17, 1502, with a salary of 20,000 maravedís (paid from the first day of January of that year). He worked in the service of said chapel until the death of Queen Isabella I of Castile in 1504. As a singer, he was part of the funeral procession that transferred the remains of the late queen to the monastery of San Francisco de la Alhambra (Granada), where he was buried on December 18 of that year according to her own wishes. From then on he worked at the service of the Aragonese Royal Chapel for a salary of 25,000 maravedís, until 1516 after the death of Fernando el Católico. Apart from these data about his service in the chapels of the Catholic Monarchs , any other data about his life and later professional dedication is unknown. Mondéjar composed Magnificat for three voices (E-Bbc 454), motets and songs. Motets: Ave sanctissimum et gloriosum corpus (E-Mp 1335; E-Bbc 454), of which we find a different version in the Portuguese tradition, attributing its authorship to Gabriel Díaz Besson (E-TZ 2/3). It is probable that Díaz and Mondéjar worked together in the Royal Chapel of Aragon between 1504 and 1506. Another peculiarity of this motet lies in the fact that, in the Cancionero de Barcelona (E-Bbc 454), the bass line contains a text different (“Ave verum corpus in ara crucis”). Ave rex noster (E-SE 203): shares stylistic ch

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