Johannes [Juan] Figueroa {Pius IV-Gregory XIII}
Soprano; Toledo; sent to the chapel by Bartholomé Escobedo; admitted 7 April 1563; mandati : April 1563-October 1571 (see mandati 910, fol. 116v for a special payment for the month of April 1563); list of 1573, DS list of June 1577; punctator , 1574.
DOCUMENTS
DS 7
45v: entry dated 21 March 1563 [LLORENS, p. 87]
Postea alio die dns. Antonius Calasanz proposuit et dixit quod ipse Bartholomeus Scobedo habebat generalem commissionem mittendi tres sopranos ex quibus iste Iohannes Figeroa fuit electus primus.
47v: entry dated 7 April 1563
Decantavimus matutinas tenebrarum presente pontifice deinde fuit admissus Joannes Figuroa in cantorem R.dus dd archiepiscopus sipontinus posuit sibi cotam loco R.di d.ni magistri episcopi castrensis iuravit etc.
48v: entry dated 11 April 1563
Ead. die Joannes Figueroa solvit ducatos duodecim de camera pro novo sui ingressu distributa inter 24 cantores.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: CELANI, p. 756; FREY, Die Diarien, p. 146; LLORENS , Josef. "Cinco cantores españoles en la capilla pontificia," Anuario Musical 36 (1981): 69-90