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Francisco Gabriel Gálvez
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Francisco Gabriel Gálvez, sometimes only called Gabriel Gálvez (Cuenca, c. 1510 - 1578) was a Spanish chapel master and composer. Little research has been carried out on the life and work of Gálvez. Perhaps it is the same Gálvez whom Saldoni said he lived in Rome in the middle of the 16th century and was a singer of the church of Santa María la Mayor. The chronology agrees; his main scholar, Miguel Martínez, assumed that he was from Cuenca because in previous years several people with that surname appeared very related to the musical life of his cathedral. The council of this cathedral, when the chapel master Andrés López died around 1557, replaced the leave with an interim and decided not to call opposition, but to call a renowned master; and deBaza and Granada brought the priest Gálvez in 1560. This Gálvez could be the same Gálvez who would have objected in 1554 to the magisterium of the cathedral of Malaga. At the end of September or the beginning of October, Gálvez arrived in Cuenca and was assigned a salary of 60,000 maravedís and 36 almudes of wheat per year; contrary to the usual, his salary was raised and he came to receive at the time of his death in 1578 105 000 maravedís. He had already said goodbye in 1563, and the canons did not want to see each other again in the brete of not having a musician, because at the end of that year they learned that King Philip II was going to visit the city. So they called him back and even paid his late salaries during the seven