Lobato, Diego

Incan chapelmaster

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In Native American music: Participation in art music
…was the late 16th-century composer Diego Lobato, an Inca who in 1574 became chapelmaster at the Quito Cathedral (now in Ecuador); he wrote motets (i.e., choral settings of sacred texts) and other works, but his scores have not survived. Two hymns with Nahuatl texts written in Mexico during the 1500s…
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