Urbán de Vargas (1606–1656) was a Spanish

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composer.

Life

Urbano Barguilla y de Ripalda was born in 1606 in Falces, south of

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. He studied with the ''maestro de capilla'' at

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, Luis Bernardo Jalón, known for his polemic activities and radical views on music. As was common among the chapel masters of the period, Vargas passed the cathedrals of

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, Daroca, Calatayud, the Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar in Zaragoza, and finally the

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, where he died at the age of 50.Antonio Ezquerro Esteban, essay in booklet to Urbán de Vargas, Quicumque. Capilla Peñaflorida dir. Josep Cabré, NB Musika, 2008 Vargas' music is in a complex polyphonic early baroque idiom. In his life he was highly regarded both as composer and organist working with other important Iberian musicians of the period including Juan Bautista Comes, Carlos Patiño (1600–1675), and the Portuguese monk Manuel Correia, ''maestro de capilla'' in Zaragoza's other cathedral

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. Among his pupils were Miguel Juan Marqués, Lluís Vicenç Gargallo and Juan Bautista Cabanilles.

Works

Surviving works include: *Misa de la Batalla *

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Vargas, Urban De Spanish Baroque composers 1606 births 1656 deaths Spanish male classical composers 17th-century Spanish classical composers 17th-century Spanish male musicians