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Pedro de Lagarto
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Pedro de Lagarto (Toledo, ca. 1465-ca. 1543) was cantor, teacher and composer active in the Cathedral of Toledo in the late fifteenth century and the first decades of the XVI. Known today as "Pedro de Lagarto" in imitation of the studies published by musicologist Robert M. Stevenson, has no such nomination in documentary sources. During the years in which the dynastic junction of occurred Catholic monarchy with the Habsburg dynasty , their different musical responsibilities in the Cathedral of Toledo placed him in a privileged position from which to attend the stylistic influence of the so-called School Burgundy on Homes Castile and Aragon. The work of Pedro de Lagarto has been transmitted through the main musical choir compiled in the Kingdom of Castile during the reign Catholic: the Biblioteca Colombina Songbook, the Cancionero musical de Palacio and Segovia Cathedral Songbook. At present they have no documents located on their childhood or their accession to the Cathedral of Toledo, center to which he linked his ecclesiastical life and musical activity. According to the data provided by your will joined the institution in 1475, probably with an age not less than six years nor more than thirteen. The first documentary reference to FIG Lizard 1489 data. Entrusted That year teaching organ and singing counterpoint to the young men of the choir for the service, replacing the deceased Juan de Triana . In addition to the intervention in the cathedral ceremonies claustrero prep
