Urrede, Juan de
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Born in Bruges, he was the son of an organist at S Donatian. For that reason, in 1451 he was not allowed to hold a clerical position at the same church. He obtained a similar post in 1457 at the church of Our Lady, where he is recorded until 1460. He reapears in Spain in 1475. That year he is paid by the first Duke of Alba, García Alvarez de Toledo, while being called a 'singer of the king'. Freund Schwartz (2001, 2017) contends that the two courts shared musical forces in the first years of the the Catholic Monarchs' reign. Urrede formally entered the Aragonese royal chapel in 1477 as a singer and chapelmaster, and remained employed there until, at least, 1482. Around 1479 he was rejected for a professorship at Salamanca University.
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Barbieri 1890, pp. 47-48
Barbieri, Francisco Asenjo, ed, Cancionero musical de los siglos XV y XVI (Madrid: Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, 1890) <http://bdh-rd.bne.es/viewer.vm?id=0000010741&page=1>Freund Schwartz, Roberta, “Love and Liberality? Music in the Courts of the Spanish Nobility”, in Companion to Music in the Age of the Catholic Monarchs, ed. by Tess Knighton (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2017) pp. 173-204Freund Schwartz, Roberta, “‘En busca de la liberalidad’: Music and Musicians in the Courts of the Spanish Nobility (1470–1640)” (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001), pp. 36-46García Fraile, Dámaso, “La cátedra de la Universidad de Salamanca durante diecisiete años del siglo XV (1464–1481)”, Anuario Musical, 46 (1991), 57–101Knighton, Tess, Música y músicos en la corte de Fernando el Católico, 1474-1516 (Zaragoza: Institución Fernando el Católico, 2001), p. 346Kreitner, Kenneth, The Church Music of Fifteenth-Century Spain, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2004), pp. 67-69Kreitner, Kenneth, “The Musical Warhorses of Juan de Urrede”, Fontes Artis Musicae, 51 (2004), 1-18Stevenson, Robert, Spanish Music in the Age of Columbus (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1960), pp. 202-03, 225-27Strohm, Reinhard, Music in Late Medieval Bruges (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985), pp. 16, 30, 32, 43, and 142 - External references
Johannes Wreede, Vrrede, Vrede, Vtrede, Vrreda
doc. 1451-1482