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San Bartolomé, Fray José de

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Person Born Died Gender Person ID
Fray José de San Bartolomé Morata de Tajuño 1639.02.04 1684.06.02 M P0109

Instrument(s) Professional group Social status Social sphere Why is the person listed?
vihuela Cleric Ecclesiastical Dancer Instrumentalist (plucked) Composer (polyphony)

Years active Place active Century Region
1639-1684 Escorial 17cent/2/mid Castilla
Biographical information

Born José Jiménez, but known as “el lector Morata” after the town of his birth, José de San Bartolomé was born in Morata de Tajuño (Madrid), son of Pedro Jiménez and Juana Ruiz. He entered the monastery of El Escorial as a boy cantorcillo. He studied grammar and music there, learning to play bajoncillo, chirimía, vihuela (de mano or de arco? -- “Bigüela” and “dançar de quenta”. He was also renowned as a composer but no works of his are known to survive. He was reputed to be a fine instrumentalist. Barbieri reported that his biography was written in the libro de obituarios and the unpublished manuscript of fray Juan Nuñez. Barbieri quotes this in full, showing his excellence in many aspects of his life and profession. Barbieri assumes that the references to the vihuela are to the vihuela de mano, but they could equally be to the vihuela de arco or the guitar given his dates. He was included by Pujol among the his list of vihuelists (pujol1949) but his only source of information was the papers of Barbieri. Barbieri included him twice in his writings, once as “Morata” (casares1986, 347-48) and then as “San Bartolomé” (casares1986, 427-28).

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casares1986 Barbieri, Francisco Asenjo. Biografias y documentos sobre música y músicos españoles. Legado Barbieri, vol 1. Ed. Emilio Casares. Madrid: Fundación Banco Exterior, 1986. 427-28, 347-48 [14084]
pujol1949 Mudarra, Alonso. Tres libros de música en cifra para vihuela. Ed. Emilio Pujol. Monumentos de la Música Española 7. Barcelona: Instituto Español de Musicología, 1949, rpt 1984. 63/fn1
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