Juan de Araujo

Juan de Araujo (* 1646 in Villafranca, Spain, † 1712 in La Plata) was a Peruvian composer.

Juan de Araujo came as a child with his father in the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru and studied at the University of San Marcos in Lima. That he was a student of Tomas de Torrejon y Velasco, as is sometimes stated, is not occupied. Apparently, he was compelled by the Viceroy Conde de Lemos said, to leave the city, but returned in 1672 in the cathedral to Lima, where he succeeded Fray Pedro Jiménez in 1674 as Kapellmeister. 1676 he left Lima again and moved to the Cathedral of Panama. In 1680, he returned as conductor of the Cathedral of La Plata to Peru.

He composed in addition to masses, motets, cantatas and villancicos and secular choral and instrumental music.

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