Joan Baptista Sanxo i Lliteres (1772-1830) - Missa de los Angeles à 4 voces (1796)

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Composer: Joan Baptista Sanxo i Lliteres (1772-1830)
Work: Missa de los Angeles à 4 voces, 5to tono ... (1796)
Performers: Zеphyr Voices Unbοund; Rіchаrd Lyοns (conductor)

Missa de los Angeles à 4 voces (1796)
1. Kyrie 0:00
2. Gloria 3:02
3. Offertorium 7:56
4. Sanctus 9:05
5. Benedictus 9:49
6. Agnus Dei 10:35
7. Communion 11:47
8. Ite Missa Est 13:36

Painting: Anónimo (19th Century) - Mission Santa Clara de Asís (1849)
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Map: Vicente Tofiño de San Miguel y Vandewalle (1732-1795) - Carta esferica de la Isla de Mallorca y sus adyacentes (1783)
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Joan Baptista (Juan Bautista) Sanxo i Lliteres [Sancho Literes]
(Artà, 1 December 1772 - Mission San Antonio de Padua, California, 8 February 1830)

Spanish composer and scholar. Born into a prominent family of musicians, the first of them was the organist Esteve Sanxo (16th Century). Joan Baptista Sanxo i Lliteres was the son of Pere Josep Sanxo i Nicolau (c.1740-1815) and Margarida Lliteres Llinàs. He moved to Palma as a young teen where he took Holy Orders on 9 February 1791 as a Franciscan monk and rose in prominence to assume the post of Music Director in the late 1790s at the prestigious Convent de Sant Francesc. In 1803 he left Mallorca with his friend Pere Cabot. The two arrived in Mexico on 20 June 1803. After a brief training session in Mexico City at the Mother House of their Franciscan Missionary Order, the Colegio Apostólico de San Fernando, they embarked for California, where they landed in Monterey on 15 August 1804. Sanxo immediately made his way down to Mission San Antonio, where he then was involved in nearly every aspect of this thriving culture, including its agricultural production, architectural construction, and musical performance. Soon, he had established a choir and orchestra capable of playing music of the difficulty one would hear in Rome or Paris. As a composer, his 'Misa en Sol' and 'Missa de los Angeles à 4 voces' (1796) are among his best works. He also 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. Among the musicians of his family, his greatgrandfather Pere Sanxo i Sard (c.1684-1755) active in Palma, Antonio Sanxo Sacrer (fl. 1776-1781) and Jaume Sanxo Melis (1743-1829), violinist and composer and the most accomplished member of his family.