Joan Batista Sanxo (1772-1830) - Missa de los Angeles (1796)

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Composer: Joan Batista Sanxo (1772-1830)
Work: Missa de los Angeles (1796)
Performers: Zеphyr: Voices Unbound; Rіchаrd Lyons

Map: Nicholas de Fer (1646-1720) - La Californie ou Nouvelle Caroline, Teatro De Los Trabajos Apostolicos De Compa. E. Jesus En Americae Septe... (1720)

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Joan Batista Sanxo [Juan Bautista Sancho]
(Artà, 1 December 1772 - Mission San Antonio de Padua, 1830)

Composer and scholar. He was the son of Pedro Sanxo and Margarita Lliterás. He became a Franciscan monk at Las Palmas, Mallorca, February 9, 1791. Padre Sanxo arrived in New Spain in 1803 where he enrolled in the College of San Fernando de México. Padre Sanxo was posted to Alta California where he became a resident priest at Mission San Antonio. He remained at Mission San Antonio until his death. Padre Sanxo was buried in the sanctuary of the mission church February 9, 1830. He co-wrote a curious Interrogatorio, reporting on the conditions of the natives, their social customs, their local flora, and even their music. He also compiled vocabularies of several of their languages. As a composer, his Missa en Sol and Missa de los Angeles are among his best works. He brought to California some of the first samples of 18th-century European music, including sacred plainchant, sacred polyphony, as well as opera excerpts and instrumental arrangements with basso continuo. #ClassicalMusic