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Manuel de Egüés
1+ albums
spanish18th century17th century
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Manuel de Conejos y Egüés (San Martín del Río, Teruel, 3 June 1657 – Burgos, 11 April 1729) was a Spanish composer and maestro de capilla, and one of the leading exponents of the “strict style” in late 17th- and early 18th-century Spanish sacred music. After early posts as chapelmaster in Vitoria (Santa María, 1679–1682) and Lleida Cathedral (from 1683), he won the prestigious magisterio de capilla of Burgos Cathedral in 1685, defeating José de Cáseda of Calahorra in open competition. Apart from a brief interval as maestro de capilla at La Seo in Zaragoza (October 1691–February 1692), he remained in Burgos until his death. Over 200 works by Egüés survive, mostly in the Burgos cathedral archive but also in Astorga, Palencia, Pamplona, Salamanca, Vitoria and elsewhere. They include Salves en romance, psalms, motets, lamentations, antiphons, sequences and numerous villancicos and other vernacular pieces, often for multiple choirs and rich ensembles of ministriles, occasionally with violins and oboes and continuo with harp as well as organ. Stylistically he avoids the full Italianising bel canto of some contemporaries, favouring dense imitative counterpoint and polychoral rhetoric, making him a central representative of the late Hispanic polyphonic tradition at the cusp of the 18th century. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.