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FLECHA, Mateo

Born in Prades, c.1481
Died in Poblet, c.1553

  • Flecha was a Spanish (or Catalan, sources differ) composer and liturgical musician. He is sometimes called Mateo Flecha el Viejo (the elder) because his nephew, named Mateo Flecha after him, was also a composer.1
  • Flecha the Younger had a collection of his uncle’s work published posthumously in 1581, to great success, as we can gather from the number of editions it went through.2

Sources

  1. “La Guerra (Mateo Flecha el Viejo), Choral Public Domain Library, accessed October 1, 2019, http://www1.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/La_Guerra_(Mateo_Flecha_el_Viejo).
  2. Maricarmen, Gómez, “Flecha, Matheo (i),” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed October 1, 2019,  https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000009799.

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