Frei Manuel Correia (or ''Correa'') (ca. 16001653) was a

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Baroque composer.Santiago De Murcia, Alejandro Vera Cifras Selectas de Guitarra: Introduction, Transcription, and ... - - 2010 Volume 1 - Page xlii "After the death of the Carmelite composer Fr. Manuel Correa, in 1653, the Zaragoza cathedral demanded ownership of his music papers because he was considered the best composer of villancicos in Spain ("el primero en gracia para los ..." He was born in Lisbon, the son of an instrumentalist in the ducal ''capela'' at

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. He followed his father into this establishment as a singer in 1616. He studied with Filipe de Magalhães, then emigrated to

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. He was then tempted away from the city by appointments which took him to the cathedral of Sigüenza and then to

Saragossa Zaragoza, also known in English as Saragossa,''Encyclopædia Britannica'"Zaragoza (conventional Saragossa)" is the capital city of the Zaragoza Province and of the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. It lies by the Ebro river and its tributari ...

, where he stayed until his death in 1653. He composed many

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s, '' tonos humanos'' and '' villancicos,'' present in the songbook ''El libro de tonos humanos'' (1655) and in the cathedral of

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