Francisco de Zubieta

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Francisco de Zubieta (c. 1657 – Palencia, 7 February 1718) was a Spanish Baroque composer and maestro de capilla whose career was centred on the cathedral chapels of Palencia and Salamanca. Trained in Madrid (sources name Cristóbal Galán as a formative influence), he won the Palencia magisterium in 1680 and oversaw a notably active musical establishment there. In 1692 he moved to Salamanca as maestro de capilla, but his stay was brief: he soon sought the university chair of music, which remained in the hands of Diego Verdugo, and his frustrations—compounded, according to later scholarship, by difficulties managing the choirboys—made his intention to leave widely known. Zubieta resigned the Salamanca post on 5 May 1694, after which Tomás Micieces el menor was appointed and became the long-serving maestro at Salamanca. Zubieta returned to Palencia, where he remained until his death in 1718, and he is also recorded as taking a position in the well-known controversy over Francisco Valls’s Missa Scala Aretina. Although only a small portion of his music has been located, extant works do survive. Modern summaries list Latin pieces such as a Laetatus sum and a polychoral Magnificat, several villancicos, and—at Salamanca—an Officium defunctorum (Parce mihi Domine) composed for the funeral honours of Queen María Luisa de Orléans. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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