Mateo Flecha, el joven

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Mateo Flecha "El Joven", was born in Prades (Tarragona) around 1530 and died on February 20, 1604 in the Monastery of La Portella (La Quar). Spanish religious and composer nephew of Mateo Flecha "El Viejo". He was born in 1481 in the Catalan town of Prades, Tarragona, then part of the Crown of Aragon. Possibly he studied music in Barcelona with Joan Castelló. In December 1522 he began working in the Cathedral of Lleida, first as a singer and, from September 1523 until October 1525, as a chapel master. It is believed that he later moved to Guadalajara, in the service of the third Duke of the Infantado, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, where he worked for six years. Some indications suggest that he later moved to Valencia, where he assumed the direction of the chapel of Ferdinand of Aragon, Duke of Calabria or, at least, was linked to the musical estates of this city. In fact, at least three of his works appear in the songbook linked to that chapel (Cancionero del duque de Calabria, also known as Cancionero de Upsala). Then it is thought that he moved to Sigüenza, where he was also a chapel master, perhaps from 1537 to 1539. From 1544 to 1548 he held the same position in the castle of Arévalo, in the chapel of the Infantas María and Juana de Castilla, the two younger sisters of Philip II. Later, he became a monk and entered the Cistercian Order, residing in the Monastery of Poblet, where he would finally die in 1553. Mateo Flecha is mainly known for his ensaladas. These are compo

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