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José Melchor Baltasar Gaspar de Nebra Blasco
1702 - 1768
Spain
| J.M.B.G. de Nebra Blasco |
José Melchor Baltasar Gaspar (José) de Nebra Blasco ((06/01/1702 - 11/07/1768) a Spanish composer from Calatayud. His work combines Spanish traditions with the Italian style of his day.
| Source: | The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians, Propylaën – Welt der Musik – Die Komponisten and http://www.trito.es/eng/default.asp |
Missa pro defunctis
| Period: | Classicism |
| Composed in: | 1758 |
| Musical form: | mass |
| Text/libretto: | Latin mass |
| In memory of: | Queen Maria Barbara de Braganca |
| Label(s): | Discan DCD/106 |
Missa pro defunctis, written for eight voices, strings and flutes, in
1758, for Queen Maria Barbara de Bragança’s (1711 - 1758) exequies. She was very powerful during the reign of her husband Fernando VI (who died in 1759). Daughter of King João V of Portugal and Maria Ana de Áustria, who was regent of Portugal (1642-50). The second dedicatee is King Fernando VI of Spain (23/09/1713
– 10/08/1759), the husband of Queen Maria Barbara de Braganca (1711-1758)
| Source: | The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians, Propylaën – Welt der Musik – Die Komponisten and http://www.trito.es/eng/default.asp |
| Contributor: | Tassos Dimitriadis |
This Missa pro defunctis (1758), is part of an Oficio de difuntos para las honras de Fernando VI (1759) y
Barbara de Braganza (1758).
This Oficio contains the following pieces:
1) Invitatorio y Salmo 94 (written in 1759)
2) Salmo 6 (written in 1758)
3) Dos Lecciones (written in 1758)
4) Invitatorio y Salmo 94 (written in 1758)
This Oficio contains the following pieces:
1) Invitatorio y Salmo 94 (written in 1759)
2) Salmo 6 (written in 1758)
3) Dos Lecciones (written in 1758)
4) Invitatorio y Salmo 94 (written in 1758)
| Source: | booklet of cd Discan DCD/106 |
| Contributor: | Tassos Dimitriadis |
| Maria Barbara de Bragança (dedicatee) |
Fernando VI of Spain (dedicatee) |
Misa de difuntos
| Period: | Classicism |
| Composed in: | 1765 |
| Musical form: | mass |
Misa de difuntos (1765), is for eight voices and instruments.
| Source: | The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians, http://www.trito.es/cdetails.php?id=363 and http://www.musicologie.org/Biographies/ |
| Contributor: | Tassos Dimitriadis |