Spanish Organ Collection 17th century
  • Fidelio
    Posts: 4
    Dear friends, It is a pleasure to announce the pdf digital organ sheet music related to the following information:

    Madrid’s National Library holds numerous old Spanish musical treasures, some of them of great antiquity. Amongst them, a collection of four sheet-music volumes for keyboards, all handwritten, dating back to the 18 century. Their titles are: Music Flowers, Delightful garden of soft music flowers, Pleasant orchard of various music flowers and again, Music flowers. It’s a compilation of the monk and organist Franciscan Catalan Antonio Martin and Coll (c. 1680 – 1734), who practised as organist and professor at San Diego Church in Alcala de Henares and later on as lead organist at Madrid’s San Francisco el Grande Basilica.

    Martin and Coll ordered copies to be made containing keyboard sheet-music from the 17 century up to the first decades of the 18 century, mainly for organ and liturgical purposes. Other non-strictly liturgical pieces are included, for more secular traditional instruments, such as the harpsichord. Genoveva Galvez, an outstanding harpsichord player, teacher and musicologist is responsible for this edition, promoted by the San Dámaso Arts and History Academy of the Ecclesiastic Province of Madrid. As a harpsichord player and scientist she stood out for her search for the authentic sources and historical documents.

    Professor Galvez is a guarantee of fidelity to Martin and Coll manuscripts, being also relevant her own musical contributions to the here published repertory. Not in vain, Genoveva Galvez has lectured at Baroque Harpsichord and Music, in Madrid, and also at the prestigious International Music Courses in Santiago de Compostela. Resulting in a great experience for Spanish keyboard music from which it has left an unquestionable testimony in numerous recordings from that time.

    Thanks to this publication we trust that the great Franciscan organist’s legacy will be popularised reaching the most secluded places as a sign of an increasing need for spirituality

    Contact me to see the content of each volume and purchase copies. 3 euros each

    All the best
    Antonio Ruiz Asumendi.
    Thanked by 3M. Jackson Osborn moderntrad CHGiffen
  • ghmus7
    Posts: 1,483
    Would you be willing to put a piece up here so we can see what this repertoire is like?
    Thank you.
    Thanked by 1JonLaird
  • ronkrisman
    Posts: 1,394
    Please, his name is Antonio Martín (with an accent) y Coll, not Antonio Martin and Coll. One does not "translate" a person's name, at least not the surname, even the conjunction "y" in a Latino surname.

    There may be great scholarship behind this project, but some people may question that immediately if they see references to "Antonio Martin and Coll." That's almost like Tony Orlando and Dawn.
    Thanked by 2CHGiffen ghmus7
  • Richard MixRichard Mix
    Posts: 2,802
    Martin y Coll is underrepresented on IMSLP. UCB's Spanish organ (now in limbo but until recently loaned to the Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary) inspired me to borrow the 3 volumes of Julian Sagasta's edition (under the title Tonos de palacio y canciones comunes; try a large public library) so that I could try the drum & other 18c stops not written for by Cabanilles. 3 Euros sounds reasonable, depending of course on the size of these volumes. As I recall Sagasta omits the works by other composers listed on WP; M&C's own works tend to be minuets and trumpet tunes...
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