Jerónimo de Carrión

Spanish composer
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IntroSpanish composer
PlacesSpain
isMusician Composer
Work fieldMusic
Gender
Male
BirthSegovia
The details

Biography

Jerónimo de Carrión (1660–1721) was a Spanish baroque composer.

Carrión was born in Segovia and was a choirboy at Segovia Cathedral. From 1687 to 1690 he was maestro de capilla in Mondoñedo and then, after a year at Ourense, at Segovia Cathedral, taking up the position formerly filled by Miguel de Irízar who had died in 1684; he remained in this post from 1692 to his death in 1721.

Works

  • 4 masses
  • 28 psalms
  • 7 offices for the dead
  • 6 magnificats
  • 12 lamentations
  • 16 motets
  • more than 500 villancicos.
Tiple villancico Jeronimo de Carrión. Fuente: Catedral de Segovia

Discography

  • Carrión "Calendas, El Tiempo En Las Catedrales" Tonos al Nacimiento, a La Pasión y al Santísimo. Lamentaciones Del Viernes. Capilla Jerónimo de Carrión dir. Alicia Lázaro. Verso. 2006.
  • Carrión "Ah de los elementos" - Misa de batalla. 7 villancicos on Capilla Jerónimo de Carrión dir. Alicia Lázaro. Verso. 2007.

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