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Hakalahti
Maestro Francisco Correa de Arauxo's Facultad Orga

SM 33
Hinta: 27,60 €
Varastossa
Helsinki, 2008. 356s. ISBN 978-952-5531-41-1. STUDIA MUSICA 33
I regard Francisco Correa de Arauxo as the most important composer of organ music of seventeenth-century Spain. Besides having been renowned organist at the Sevillian Church of San Salvador, the Jaén Cathedral, and the Cathedral of Segovia, Correa was a teacher and a significant writer on issues of music theory and performance conventions. His Facultad orgánica of 1626 involves sixty-nine compositions plus pedagogical and theoretical writings in the form of an extensive foreword and preambles written to compositions. Despite the undisputed importance of Correa's book, it has been studied surprisingly little - and even less from the angle of performance practice.
My research belongs to the field of study on performance practice of early Spanish keyboard/organ music, its main focus being on Correa's advice on different elements of performance considerations.