Manuel José de Quirós

Manuel Joseph de Quirós (* about 1690, † 1765 ) is a Guatemalan composer and conductor.

Life

Manuel Joseph de Quirós was in Santiago de Guatemala (now Antigua Guatemala ), the then capital of Central America, was born. He received his musical training as an apprentice and later as a journeyman in the cathedral. Later he was admitted to the Franciscan Order. He managed the publishing house of the Franciscans in his native city, where he published important theological and philosophical works until he was on March 7, 1738 by Bishop Pedro Pardo de Figueroa ( 1683-1751 ) was appointed Kapellmeister of the cathedral. This office should he practice until his death in 1765. In November 1745, when the diocese was elevated to an archdiocese Guatemala, Quirós directed the musical arrangement of the festivities. His fame came up on the borders of the empire ( the so-called Reyno de Guatemala); he was the first composer of the New World an excellent critique, from Antonio de Paz y Salgado in 1747 in Mexico City publish publication. Among his apprentices and journeymen especially his nephew Rafael Antonio Castellanos emerged that his successor as Kapellmeister of the cathedral was after the death of Quirós. As a composer Quirós used the Spanish Baroque style, with plenty of villancicos for the various feasts of the Catholic church year, as well as liturgical compositions to Latin texts.

Works

Villancicos in Spanish:

• ¡ Qué bien!
• ¡ Ay Jesús!
• Hoy que las Sacras aras
• Vagelillo que al viento
• Jesús, Jesús y lo que Subes
• A el pan de los cielos the adoraciones
• Yo la tengo de cantar
• Ay niña bella
• Venid, venid a las aras de Dios y de Juan
• Oigan going triunfos
• Joseph Antonio, tus dos nombres
• CLARINES suaves
• Un hombre Dios
• Oygan una xacarilla
• Cantad jilguerillos
• Oh admirable sacramento
• Digo a Siola Negla ( 1736)
• Luz a luz, y gracia gracia a
• Jesuclisa Magdalena ( 1745)
• Pues que estamos de Pascuas ( 1745)
• Vengo turo Flaciquillo ( 1746 )
• Amotinados los negros
• Lucid question ante Pink
• Candido cisnes

Works on Latin texts:

• Sanctus Deus
• Cor mundum
• Liberame
• Auditi meo
• Manum suam iodine
• Parce mihi Domine
• Laudate Pueri Dominum

Swell

• Antonio de Paz y Salgado, Las luces del cielo y la Iglesia en el difundidas emispherio de Guathemala. Mexico City: Imprenta del Gobierno Superior, in 1747.
• Dieter Lehnhoff, Creación musical en Guatemala. Guatemala City: University Rafael Landívar and Fundación G & T Continental, Editorial Galería Guatemala, 2005, pp. 69-84. ISBN 99922-704-7-0.
• Dieter Lehnhoff, " Quirós, Manuel Joseph de «. Diccionario de la Música Española e Hispano Americana, Vol 10 (Madrid: Sociedad General de Autores y Editores, 2000).
• Dieter Lehnhoff, Música de la P.Temporada Colonial en Guatemala. Antigua Guatemala: CIRMA, 1984.
• Alfred E. Lemmon, ed Music From Eighteenth - Century Guatemala. South Woodstock, Vermont: Plumsock Mesoamerican Studies, 1986.
• Robert M. Stevenson, " Guatemala Cathedral to 1803 ," Inter- American Music Review II / 2 ( Spring-Summer 1980): 27-72.

• Franciscan
• Born in the 17th century
• Died in 1765
• Man