MORALES, CHRISTOBAL de. - Musician, b. in Seville on 2 Jan. 1512, d. in Toledo in 1553. He did his studies in his native city, and completed them later in Rome, where he was a singer of the Pontifical Chapel from 1540. On 1 Sept. 1545 he returned to Spain as director of the musical chapel of the cathedral of Toledo.

M., distinguished for a grave and severe style, was one of the most tenacious opponents of the bad taste in religious music of his time. In the Musical Archive of Toledo there are found in manuscript 8 masses, 16 Magnificats, 13 motets, while the following are printed: Liber I missarum quatuor vocum (Paris 1540), Magnificat octo tonorum cum quatuor vocibus, liber I (Rome 1541); Mottetti a 5 voci (Venice 1543); Liber II missarum cum quatuor et quinque vocibus (Rome 1544); Quinque missarum harmonis diapente, ideet quinque voces referens (Venice 1547). Numerous works of M. are found in collections of Raschlitz, Eler, Schad, Donfrid and Petrucci.

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BIBL.: R. Mitjana, C. de M. Estudio critico biografico, Madrid 1920; F. R. Figueras, Musica y Musicos Toledauss, Toledo 1922, p. 75 ff.; J. B. Trend, C. M., Paris 1925.

Silverio Mattei

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