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Máximo Ríos
spanishbaroque17th century
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Máximo Ríos (fl. 1686–1705) emerges in the documentary record as maestro de capilla of the Real Colegio-Seminario de Corpus Christi in Valencia (the “Patriarca”), one of the most important Spanish Baroque music chapels. Archival work on the Patriarca’s payrolls and chapter acts places him in post from July 1686 until May 1705, succeeding a short sequence of interim chapel masters after Aniceto Baylón and providing long-term continuity at the end of the 17th century. His surviving music is preserved in manuscript in the Patriarca archive and has only recently begun to surface in performance and recording; restoration projects on the Corpus Christi collections specifically single out his manuscripts alongside those of José Hinojosa, Aniceto Baylón and Antonio Ortells as significant witnesses to the Valencian Baroque. Ríos also appears indirectly in the biography of the later composer Pedro Vidal Mas, who entered the Colegio in 1700 and was trained there under Ríos as maestro de capilla, which gives us at least one documented line of pedagogical descent. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.