Diego de las Muelas

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Diego José de las Muelas Cardo (Cuenca, January 10, 1698 - Madrid, January 6, 1743) was a Spanish composer and chapel master. He was musically educated as an infant of the choir in the Cathedral of Sigüenza, where his uncle, José Cardo y Mateo, second organist, worked. He had been a chapel teacher in the Cathedral of Astorga for several years when in 1718 he presented himself to the oppositions for the teaching of the Cathedral of Salamanca. In the oppositions of Salamanca, one of the most important teachings in Spain, taking into account that he often combined with the chair of music of the University of Salamanca, he competed with Francisco Antonio Yangua Santo Domingo de la Calzada; Simón de Araya, maestro de León; Pedro Rodrigo musician from Madrid; Lorenzo Romero, musician from Madrid; Pedro Felipe de Arteaga y Valdés, musician from Madrid, and Bartolomé Remacha, musician from Madrid. It was unsuccessful, since the position fell to Yanguas. The vacancy left by Yanguas in Santiago was filled on January 26, 1719 by Muelas, after winning the corresponding oppositions. During his short four-year stay in Santiago, he took minor and major orders and was appointed canon of the Cabildo. Thanks to the relationship between the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela and the Royal Monastery of the Incarnation of Madrid, for which the archbishop of Santiago was the administrator of the Monastery, there was a certain exchange in the staff of both institutions, including the chapel mas

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