Mateo Romero (composer)

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Mateo Romero (ca. 1575 – 1647) was a Belgian-born Spanish composer of

Most of his works, which were stored in the Royal Library in Lisbon, were destroyed in the Lisbon earthquake of 1755.^[7][8]

Surviving works include:

Masses:

• Missa Bonae voluntatis 9 voices and B.c. (also 5 voice version)
• Missa Qui Habitat (8 voices and B.c.) - based on his own Psalm.
• Missa Un jour l'amant (8 voices and B.c.) - parody mass of chanson of
  Lassus
  .
• Missa Dolce fiamella (5 voices and B.c.)
• Missa Batalla (4 voices and B.c.)
• Missa de Requiem de dos Baxos (8 voices and B.c.) Missa "Pro Defunctis"
• Missa Veu que de vostre amour a 8
• Missa Dolce fiamella mia a 5 - on madrigal by Giovanni Maria Nanino.
• Missa on the Litany, 5vv (on his own 8 voice Litany
• Missa Batalla a 4 - on
  Clement Janequin
  's La Bataille
• Missa Sabbato Sancto a 4

Magnificats, Psalms and Motets:

• 3 Magnificat
• 3 Dixit Dominus
• Domine, quando veneris
• Libera me, Domine
• Convertere Domine
• Domine, ne in furore tuo

Secular works:

• 9
  villancicos
• 3 canciones a 3
• 5 letrillas a 3
• 2 novenas a 2
• 2 folías
• 15 romances a 3 to texts by Lope de Vega, Francisco de Quevedo and others.
• 1 seguidilla
• 11 songs (treble voice surviving only) in Cancionero de Onteniente, 1645.

Discography

• "Romero - Music At The Spanish Court" Currende, dir. Erik Van Nevel, 1996 (Cypres 3606)
• "Missa pro defunctis - Requiem para Cervantes" Ensemble Schola Antiqua, La Grande Chapelle, dir. Ángel Recasens (Communidad)
• "Office Pour l'Ordre de la Toison d'Or" Choeur de Chambre de Namur, dir. Jean Tubéry. 2003 (Ricercar)

References