Cristóbal de Isla
Cristóbal de Isla
Genres: spanish, 17th century
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About Cristóbal de Isla
Diego Cristóbal de Isla (Berlanga de Duero, baptised September 15, 1586 - Palencia, c. December 1, 1651) was a Spanish composer and maestro de cappella. After the death of Mosén Jusepe Nadal in 1610, it took almost a year to occupy the position of chapel master in the Cathedral of Huesca. Arrangements were made to bring the teacher from Lleida. On January 26, 1615 he was granted permission to leave, to go to El Burgo de Osma, "and he was granted not to renounce the ration that was given to him so that he had the occasion and reason for ordering it to return to this holy church." The latest news from Isla in Huesca is from January 29, 1615. The Cathedral of Huesca was again without a teacher, since the difficulties in getting a musician for the metropolitan did not seem to have been resolved. In February 1616, the master of the Cathedral of Tarazona, Mateo Calvete, was called, who seems to have begun master's degree in Huesca two months later. After the teacher of El Burgo de Osma, Sebastián López de Velasco, left for Segovia in 1613, to receive some classes from his teacher, he ended up occupying the master's degree of the Cathedral a year later. Thus, in 1614 the position in El Burgo de Osma became vacant and on November 29, Sebastián López was called to Isla on the recommendation to carry out a test. Sebastián López and Melchor de la Vega formed the court that praised the abilities of the Huesca master. Cristóbal de Isla took office as chapel master of the Cathedral of El Burgo de Osma on December 12, 1614 by powers and on January 19, 1615 personally. As you can see, Isla is following in the footsteps of his teacher Sebastián López. Isla would only stay less than a year and a half in El Burgo de Osma. During this time he introduced two infants, Alonso Moreno, from Berlanga, and another from Gormaz. During his stay he was also part, along with Pedro Martínez, Pedro Lizano and Marcos Domínguez, of the opposition court for the position of organist, to which Manuel Nieto and Fernando de Senera presented themselves. Manuel Nieto would finally win, but he resigned from office and returned to Palencia, so he had to look for an organist again. After the departure from Isla to Palencia, the council of El Burgo de Osma organized some oppositions to occupy the master's degree, a musician from Soria presented themselves, another from Logroño named Juan Mateo, and finally the one who would win, Juan de la Bermeja. n 1616 Juan de Ávila died, leaving the master's degree of the Cathedral of Palencia vacant, so on April 27 of that year oppositions were held to occupy the position. The famous Juan de Castro, master of the chapel of the Cathedral of Cuenca, and Isla, who won the position, presented themselves. During his stay in Palencia he received numerous praise for his education and care for his infants. Tomás Micieces was one of his students. He remained in Palencia until his death a few days before December 1, 1651. Cristóbal de Isla enjoyed considerable fame in his time and was a prominent member of the Castilian polycoral school headed by Tomás Micieces. He was one of the first in Spain to introduce a continuous bass of organ, harp and rope. Few works of Isla are preserved and many of those that are preserved are incomplete. Laudate Dominum, with nine voices; Olaláo, unfortunate boat, seven voices; Hail Regina, seven voices; Sub tuum praesidium, five voices.
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