Aniceto Baylón
Aniceto Baylón
Genres: spanish, 17th century
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About Aniceto Baylón
Gerónimo Aniceto Baylón (d. Valencia, 2 December 1684) — often cited simply as Aniceto Baylón — was an important yet still under-studied representative of the 17th-century Valencian school. Little is known about his early life or training, but he appears first as a capellán cantor in the Capilla Real in Madrid, indicating that he was already a singer of some distinction. In 1664 he won the post of maestro de capilla of the Colegiata de Xàtiva, where he worked for around thirteen years before returning to Valencia. In 1677 he was appointed maestro de capilla of the Real Colegio del Corpus Christi, succeeding Antonio Teodoro Ortells; he remained there until his death in 1684 and is frequently bracketed by musicologists with [artists]Juan Bautista Comes[/artists] as one of the major exponents of multi-choir Valencian polyphony. Baylón left around fifty compositions in the Patriarca archive, with additional works preserved at El Escorial, in the cathedrals of Valencia and Segorbe, at the parish church of Sant Pere i Sant Pau in Canet de Mar, and in British collections. His idiom, according to 19th- and 20th-century commentators, exploits dialoguing triple- and quadruple-choir textures with a fluency that suggests Comes’s influence, even if direct study cannot be documented.
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