Mudarra, Alonso de
Mudarra, Alonso de
Mudarra, Alonso de, Spanish vihuelist and composer; b. Palencia diocese, c. 1508; d. Seville, April 1, 1580. He became a canon (1546) and was elected major domo (1568) at Seville Cathedral. He pubi, the important vol. Três libro de música en cifras para vihuela (Seville, 1546; ed. in Monumentos de la Musica Espanola, VII, 1949).
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