Pere Joan Aldomar

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Pere Joan Aldomar (14 ?? - 1543) was a Catalan composer. He was chapel master of the cathedral of Barcelona (1506) and singer of the chapel of Ferdinand the Catholic (1508). Various works and carols are preserved in various songbooks: the Uppsala and the Palace Songbook. Born in Barcelona, ​​he must have been related to the canon Aldomar, buried in the cathedral of Barcelona in 1500. He was appointed singing teacher of the Barcelona see on January 19, 1506 and succeeded the master Bartomeu Rovira, but for a short time, since in the same year an interim master held this position. In 1508 he is documented as the singer of the chapel of Ferdinand the Catholic , as he was named as such on March 1 of the same year. He remained there for less than six months and in the summer of 1509 succeeded the theorist Juan de Espinosa as "music teacher" in the Cathedral of Toledo. He held the post for a year and after that no further information is available about him. Some of the major polyphony collectionsIberian from the end of the 15th century and the beginning of the 16th century, such as the Cancionero Musical de Palacio , the so-called Cançoner de Barcelona , ​​preserved in the Biblioteca de Catalunya , or the Villancicos collection by various authors, two, three, four, and there are five voices published in Venice in 1556 (called Cançoner del duc de Calabria), they collect works by Aldomar, especially three-voice carols: En las sierras donde vengo, Di pastorcico, pues vienes and Si

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