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Jean de Cordoval (Corduel) [Juan de Córdoba]

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Person Born Died Gender Person ID
Jean de Cordoval (Corduel) [Juan de Córdoba] M P0243

Instrument(s) Professional group Social status Social sphere Why is the person listed?
vihuela lute laúd Musician Professional Court - royal Instrumentalist (plucked)

Years active Place active Century Region
1433-49 Borgoña 15cent/2/mid France
Biographical information

First appears on payroll lists 1433 termed as a lutenist. 1436 and 1437 listed as player of the vielle. 1445 1449 ‘jouer des instruments bas’. marixHIST, pp. 267-71 quoted in polkGERM, p. 13.

gomez1992-2, p. 591: Castilian blind lutenist employed at the court of Philip the Fair in Burgundy. Mentioned by Martin le Franc in Le champion des dames. Marix 1939, p. 267ff, 95, names him as Juan de Corduel in the company of Jehan Ferant, both of whom had come from Portugal. (Cited in schöner1999, p. 40. Both given as jouer de luths, jouer de vielle or menestrel de bas instruments).

corona1999, p. 21: In 1466 Juan do Córdoba was back in Spain, assuming that certain documents from Saragossa which mention a blind player of the rebec and vihuela de arco refer to the same person. On December 22 of that year he gave power of attorney to his servant Juan de Cazorla to demand the restitution of a donkey of his property, and on April 6, 1467, he accepted GarcIa Jiménez (also blind) as his apprentice, undertaking to teach him vihucla y rabcl, and to provide him,

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Bibliography
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corona1999 Corona-Alcalde, Antonio. “The Players and Performance Practice of the Vihuela and its related Instruments, the Lute and the Guitar, from c. 1450 to c.1650. as revealed by a Study of Literary, Musical, Theoretical, and Archival Sources”. Diss. King's College, University of London, 1999. 21
gomez1992-2 Gómez Muntané, Maricarmen. “Some precursors of the Spanish lute school”. Early Music 20 (1992): 583-593. 591
marix1939 Marix, Jeanne (ed). Histoire de la Musique et des Musiciens de la Cour de Bourgogne sous la Règne de Philippe le Bon. Strassbourg: [publisher ?], 1939; rpt Baden-Baden: Valentin Koerner, 1974. 267-71
polkGERM Polk, Keith. German instrumental music of the late Middle Ages: players, patrons, and performance practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. 13
schöner1999 Schöner, Oliver. Die Vihuela de mano im Spanien des 16. Jahrhunderts. Europäsiche Hochschulenschriften, vol 198. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1999. 40
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