Donaire, Rodrigo

knighton1992, pp. 574-76: Pagado como "tañedor de vihuela" en la Casa de Castilla durante los años 1489-1500. También cantante. Donaire apparently also taught? her children. •
Correspondence of Conde de Tendilla. Letter to don Iñigo Manrique (11 April 1513) “I brought Rodrigo donaire, as your Honour agreed, and now, because of Galiano’s refusal I have taken on another instrumentalist who is also a servant of Don Diego Hernández: if he has one tiple I have three others exceptional for songs and more. (knighton1989, p. 345) from E. Meneses García (ed.), Correspondencia del Conde de Tendilla, Madrid, 1973-75, vol 2, 230. • 1493 Among “Oficiales de la casa” Rodrigo Donayre “tañedor de vihuela de arco” with a salary of 30,000 mrs/yr (Anglés/RC, I, 68) • 1495 Among “Oficiales de la casa” of Isabel la Católica as “tañedor de vihuela ” (Anglés/RC, I, 68) • 1498 Among “Oficiales de la casa” of Isabel la Católica as “tañedor de cañas” ie player of loud instruments with a salary of 30,000 mrs/yr (Anglés/RC, I, 68). Knighton, article on Gonzalo de Baena, documents Donayre’s visit(s)) to Portugal.
• ruiz2009 documents Rodrigo Donaire in 1516 in the service of Alonso Pérez de Guzmán, Fifth Duke of Medina Sidonia. Salary of 15000 mrs

Knighton2016-2, 126:
23 April 1513, Tendilla wrote to the Count of Palma, Luis Fernández Portocarrero y Bocanegra (d. 1528): ‘Rodrigo Donaire has left me; I think he is going to a place where they think he sang well; I was telling him to be quiet all the time’ (‘Ya se me fue Rodrigo Donaire, creo que va a cantar donde crean que cantava bien, que yo cada hora le dezia que callase’) (Meneses García 1973–74, 2: 266; cited in Knighton 2001: 156). The Count explains Donaire’s rapid departure on the grounds that he was not paid enough (he appears to have received 20,000 maravedís rather than the 30,000 maravedís he earned at court) and that two wits (‘donaires’), like two madmen, could not be in the same place at the same time. Donaire subsequently went to serve the Fifth Duke of Medina Sidonia, Alonso Pérez de Guzmán; he appears in pay documents for the ducal household from 1513 to 1516, along with another vihuelist, a harpist, eleven chapel singers and an organist, seven ministriles altos and a corps of six trumpeters and a drummer (Ruiz Jiménez 2009b: 410; Gómez Fernández 2016:126,138 and140).

note 44 = original text: “Truxe a Rodrigo Donaire, como vuestra merçed conçerto y agora para sobrehusa de Galiano he tomado otro tañedor y también es criado de Diego Hernandes; si un tiple ouiese, tengo otros tres singulares para cançiones y para mas. Qualquier cosa de musica que por alla atravesare venga aca que esta es agora el tema’ (Meneses García 1973–74, 2:230; cited in Knighton2001:155).

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King Manuel I (Portugal)
The monarchs’ ambassador to Portugal, Ochoa Álvarez de Isasaga, describes the festivities at the Portuguese court on Christmas Eve 1500 (Knighton2001:154):

En acabando de comer vino el señor rey a la camara de la señor reyna, e, yendose l infanta, mando despejar la camara, y despues estovieron el rey e la reyna solos oyendo musica de Rodrigo de Donayre y sus compañeros’ (Torre & Suárez Fernández 1958–63, 3:7;citedinKnighton2001:154).

Alonso de Baena	was his	colleague
Diego de Medina	was his	colleague
Isabel la Catolica	was his	patron