Juan Cepa

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Juan Cepa or Juan de Cepa (Descargamaría , Cáceres, 1520s — Málaga , before October 3, 1576) was a Spanish composer of the 16th century about whom there is not much information. The exact date of his birth is not known, but the decade has been deduced from the fact that in 1532 he was a child in the Cathedral of Ciudad Rodrigo (Salamanca). He had Diego Bujel I as teacher and can be considered within the musical school created by the first mirobrigense chapel teacher, Giraldin Bucher. There is no more news until his appearance in the chapel of the Dukes of Calabria in Valencia, although his position is not clear, perhaps singer, perhaps chapel master. This is known thanks to the Opera Omnia, which indicates that Cepa charged 150 ducats, more than double that of Bartolomé Cárceres, one of the great musicians with whom Cepa was related. It is known that he was also related to the musicians Mateo Flecha "El Viejo" and Pedro de Pastrana. In 1550, the year of the death of the Duke, Fernando de Aragón, he was certainly a chapel master, having accepted his master's position in the Cathedral of Ciudad Rodrigo around 1542. It was probably then that he composed Soleta y verge, to a chorus by Bartolomé Cárceres. Cepa continued in the service of Doña Mencía de Mendoza, widow of Fernando de Aragón, when in 1552 he was appointed chapel master of the Badajoz Cathedral. Despite the fact that he represented a raise of 100 ducats, he never got the job. In 1553 he signed up for the opposition

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