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Name
  
Jose Nebra

Role
  
Composer


Died
  
July 11, 1768, Madrid, Spain

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José de Nebra (1702-1768) Miserere [extracts pt.1 of 2]


Jose Melchor Baltasar Gaspar Nebra Blasco (January 6, 1702 – July 11, 1768) was a Spanish composer.

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Biografia

Jose de Nebra was born in Calatayud and was taught by his father, Jose Antonio Nebra Mezquita (1672–1748), organist and master of choirboys at the Cathedral of Cuenca 1711-1729. Two brothers were also musicians: Francisco Javier Nebra Blasco (1705–1741), organist of La Seo in Zaragoza till he moved to Cuenca in 1729, then succeeded by his brother Joaquin Ignacio Nebra Blasco (1709–1782) till his death. He died in Madrid.

More than 170 works by Nebra survive: masses, psalms, litanies, a Stabat Mater, a Salve Regina, cantatas, villancicos, and around thirty keyboard works. But his significance is as the leading late Baroque composer of Spanish opera and zarzuela.

Some of Nebra's zarzuelas, choral works and solo cantatas have been recorded on CD by the Spanish group Al Ayre Espanol, and other works by Los Musicos de Su Alteza, choral orchestral works by Madrid Barroco

Works

Sacred works

  • Aromatica rosa Americana
  • Miserere
  • Para un triunfo que el orbe
  • Requiem for Queen Barbara of Braganza
  • Rompan los vagos espacios
  • Salve regina
  • Cantata: Entre candidos bellos

    • Operas

  • Amor aumenta el valor (collective work, 3rd act only), 1728
  • Venus y Adonis, 1729
  • Mas gloria es triunfar de si. Adriano in Syria, 1737
  • No todo indicio es verdad. Alexander in Asia, 1744
  • Antes que zelos y amor, la piedad llama al valor. Achilles in Troy 1747

    • Zarzuelas

  • Las proezas de Esplandian y el valor deshace encantos, 1729
  • Amor, ventura y valor logran el triunfo mayor, 1739
  • Viento es la dicha de amor, 1743
  • Donde hay violencia no hay culpa, 1744
  • Vendado amor es, no es ciego, 1744
  • Cautelas contra cautelas y el rapto de Ganimedes, 1745
  • La colonia de Diana, 1745
  • Para obsequio a la deydad, nunca es culto la crueldad. Iphigenia en Tracia (Thrace), 1747
  • No hay perjurio sin castigo, 1747

    • Selected recordings

  • 2001 - Miserere. Al Ayre Espanol. Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
  • Sonata, op. 1 no. 4 for harpsichord, performed by Janine Johnson
  • Opera - Amor aumenta el valor Los Musicos de Su Alteza, Alpha, 2010
  • 2005 - La Cantada Espanola en America. Al Ayre Espanol Harmonia Mundi Iberica 987064
  • Arias de Zarzuelas. Maria Bayo, Al Ayre Espanol dir. Eduardo Lopez Banzo. Harmonia Mundi, 2006
  • Cantatas. Esta Dulzura Amable. Al Ayre Espanol dir. Eduardo Lopez Banzo. Challenge Classics 2011
  • Vespers - Vispera de Confesores. La Grande Chapelle. dir. Angel Recasens. Lauda Musica 2006
  • Principio des Maitines de Navidad; Responsorium I, Nocturno 1, Nativitatis Domini. "Madrid 1752, Madrid Barroco, Grover Wilkins 3d, dir Dorian, 2001

    • References

    Jose de Nebra Wikipedia
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