Nationality Spanish Religion Catholicism | Profession Musician | |
Died 1682, Buenos Aires, Argentina | ||
Juan de Cáceres y Ulloa (1618–1682) was a Spanish nobleman, organist of Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral. He was the first musician of the Río de la Plata, together with Juan Vizcaíno de Agüero.
Biography
Juan de Cáceres was born in Buenos Aires, the son of Alonso de Cáceres and María Coutinho, grandson of Felipe de Cáceres (governor of Paraguay). His mother María, was daughter of Juan López and Isabel de Melo Coutinho, descendant of Vasco Fernandes Coutinho and Pedro Álvarez Holguín de Ulloa.
Juan de Cáceres was a disciple of Juan Vizcaíno de Agüero organist of Cathedral of Buenos Aires. When Vizcaino left his post as organist of the Eglise, Caceres was hired by with a salary of 100 pesos a year, an important amount in those years, being one of the richest men in Buenos Aires, in the first half of the 17th century.
Juan de Cáceres y Ulloa took over the organ, and plainchant of the Cathedral, and he remained during a period of nearly thirty years.