Hurtado de Xeres

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Hurtado de Xeres (also spelled Xerés) is a late-fifteenth-century Iberian composer known today almost entirely through a small number of pieces preserved in the Cancionero de la Colombina (Seville, Biblioteca Capitular y Colombina, MS 7-1-28), a major manuscript witness for secular polyphony in Spain around the end of the fifteenth century. Within this source, two three-voice songs are explicitly attributed to him: No tenga nadie sperança (copied on ff. 53v–54v) and Con temor de la mudança (on ff. 55v–56v). Beyond these securely located attributions, open-access reference coverage does not provide a stable, detailed life narrative; even the composer’s floruit is usually given only approximately (for example, “fl.ca.1480” in commercial cataloguing). One additional identity claim sometimes circulated in modern web reference—equating “Hurtado de Xeres” with a “Pietro Furtado” active in Naples in 1455—cannot be confirmed from the manuscript witness itself. In present-day reception, Hurtado de Xeres is most likely to be encountered through recordings and programmes devoted to the Colombina manuscript, which foreground his surviving songs as part of the broader soundworld of Iberian courtly and urban song repertories at the close of the Middle Ages. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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