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Yllescas, Pedro de

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Person Born Died Gender Person ID
Pedro de Yllescas M P1265

Instrument(s) Professional group Social status Social sphere Why is the person listed?
vihuela de arco Instrumentalist (bowed)

Years active Place active Century Region
Alba de Tormes? 15cent/3/late
Biographical information

Pedro de Yllescas, who was employed by the First Duke of Alba,was designated as ’tañedor de vihuela de arco’, as was Juan de Yllescas employed by don Fadrique, the Second Duke (schwartz2016, 187).

The first duke Don García Álvarez de Toledo (c.1424-1488) was duke from 1477-1488.

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schwartz2016 Freund Schwartz, Roberta. “Love and Liberality? Music in the Courts of the Spanish Nobility”. Companion to music in the age of the Catholic monarchs, ed. Tess Knighton. Boston; Leiden: Brill, 2016. 173-204. 187
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