Baena, Lope de

A musician at the court of the Catholic Kings, described as a “tañedor” often a reference to a vihuela player, but not necessarily. He may have been related to keyboard player Gonzalo de Baena whose “Arte de tanger” was published in Lisbon in 1541. This may possibly explain why he called a keyboard player by some writers.

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• kastner1941, pp 45, 46, 49, 61, 85, 230 . Kastner refers to him as a "Músico de la Reina Católica" but he interprets this as meaning a keyboard player.
• pujol1949: calls him “López de Baena”
• casares1988, doc 133. “Lope de Baena, organista a la reina Isabel en 1505.”
• rubio1983, 51 asserts that he was also a singer as well as a “tañedor” in the household of Fernando el Católico while still a prince, that is before 1479. This information is probably drawn from Anglées( probablemente tomado de Anglés.
• angles1941, I, 68 asserts that in 1495 he was among the “Oficiales de la casa” of Isabel la Católica as a “tañedor.”

See knighton2016-1 for further information

Fernando el Católico	was his	employer
[unnamed 3]	was his