Artist: Jose Enrique Ayarra Album: Francisco Correa De Arauxo (1584-1654) - Facultad Organica I, 2CD Released: 1996 Label: Almaviva Catalog N°: DS0104-2 Genre: Classical, Organ File Format: eac_iso_flac_cue_log covers 313MB, 315MB Francisco Correa de Arauxo (1584–1654) was the most important Spanish composer of organ music of seventeenth-century Spain, a skilled organist (serving at San Salvador of Seville, the Jaèn Cathedral, and the Cathedral of Segovia), and a significant writer on both theoretical and performance practice issues. However, his work Facultad orgánica (1626, Alcalá), which includes an extensive foreword, sixty-nine organ compositions, and prefaces written to these compositions, has been studied surprisingly little. Moreover, there are inconsistencies and also factual errors found in the Correa research carried out so far, in addition to the creditable work of several scholars. Perhaps the areas that have involved the greatest confusion until recently hav...