Urbán de Vargas

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Urbán de Vargas (1606–1656) was a Spanish baroque composer.

Life

Urbano Barguilla y de Ripalda was born in 1606 in Falces, south of Navarra. He studied with the maestro de capilla at Burgos, Luis Bernardo Jalón, known for his polemic activities and radical views on music. As was common among the chapel masters of the period, Vargas passed the cathedrals of Huesca, Pamplona, Daroca, Calatayud, the Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar in Zaragoza, and finally the Valencia, where he died at the age of 50.^[1]

Vargas' music is in a complex polyphonic early baroque idiom. In his life he was highly regarded both as composer and organist working with other important Iberian musicians of the period including Juan Bautista Comes, Carlos Patiño (1600–1675), and the Portuguese monk Fray Manuel Correa (ca. 1590-1653) maestro de capilla in Zaragoza's other cathedral La Seo.

Works

Surviving works include:

Misa de la Batalla
villancicos

References

↑ Antonio Ezquerro Esteban, essay in booklet to Urbán de Vargas, Quicumque.Capilla Peñaflorida dir. Josep Cabré, NB Musika, 2008

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 277571 LCCN: no2005104625 ISNI: 0000 0000 5933 4655

Persondata
Name	Vargas, Urban De
Alternative names
Short description	Spanish composer
Date of birth	1606
Place of birth	Falces, Navarra, Spain
Date of death	1656
Place of death	Valencia, Spain

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