Encina, Juan del

Other names

Juan del Enzina, Juan de Fermoselle

Dates

1468-1529/30

Notes

Playwright, poet and composer. He was a choirboy at Salamanca Cathedral, where he also studied law. In 1493 or 1495 he entered the service of the Duke of Alba until 1500, when he moved to Rome. He sought the favour of cardinals and popes, so obtaining ecclessiastical benefices in Spain. From 1508 to 1523​​​​​​ ​he lived between Rome and Spain until he settled in León, holding the priorship at the cathedral until his dead.

Bibliography

Gómez, Maricarmen, “De Juan del Encina a Pedro Ruimonte: El romancero”, in Historia de la música española e hispanoamericana. II: De los Reyes Católicos a Felipe II (Madrid: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2012) pp. 95-108

Jones, Royston Oscar, and Carolyn Lee, Juan de Encina: Poesía lírica y cancionero musical (Madrid: Castalia, 1975)

Morais, Manuel, ed, La obra musical de Juan del Encina (Salamanca: Centro de Cultura Tradicional, Diputación Provincial de Salamanca, 1997)

Sherr, Richard, “A Note on the Biography of Juan del Encina”, Bulletin of the Comediantes, 34/2 (1982), 159-72

Sullivan, Henry W, Juan del Encina (Boston: Twayne Publishers, G. K. Hall Co., 1976)

Zywietz, Michael, “Juan del Encina (1469–1529) und die Bedeutung des Humanismus für die spanische Musik am ende des 15. Jahrhunderts”, Anuario Musical, 57 (2002), 59-75 <http://anuariomusical.revistas.csic.es/index.php/anuariomusical/article/view/81/82>

External references

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