According to the Internet source given below, Juan Esquivel de Barahona (born ca. 1563 - died after 1613) was a Spanish composer born in Ciudad Rodrigo where he studied under Juan Navarro, teacher of
Tomás Luis de Victoria. He was Chapel Master of Oviedo Catedral until 1585. Some sources maintain that he then went to Calahorra, Avila, and finally to Ciudad Rodrigo; others established that he was in Salamanca in 1608. He had three books published the first being
Missarum liber primus (Salamanca 1608) has 6 masses (4 to 8 voices - one of them a Requiem) and the antiphon,
Asperges me. The second book
Motecta Festorum et Dominicarum cum Communi Sanctorum IV, V, VI et VIII vocibus concinenda (Salamanca 1608), has seventy-one motets, mostly for 4 voices. The third book contains eight vespers including the
Song of Simeon, a Nunc dimitis for 4 voices, twenty-nine hymns for 4 voices, sixteen Magnificat (mostly written for 4 voices), the four marian antiphons, five other pieces including a motet, seven masses (4 and 5 voices) and an Officium Defunctorum.
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