Christophorus [Cristóbal] de Morales {Paul III}
Tenor; Seville; admitted 31 August 1535; mandati : October 1535 -December 1545 (this includes a ten-month leave of absence for which permission was granted in January 1545 ); died in October 1553 in Malaga.
STEVENSON (1953) provides a very thorough discussion of Morales’s tenure in the chapel, drawn from the DS.
DOCUMENTS
DS 1
17r-v: entry dated 31 August 1535 [CASIMIRI (1924), p. 97]
Eodem die fuit admissus in cantorem D. Cristophorus de Moralis clericus hispalensis diocesis et parva capella a venerabili Bartholomeo de Crota magistro capelle in presentia omnium cantorum superpellitio indutus necnon per sacra Evangelia observare privilegia tenereque secreta capelle atque suis confratribus obedire juravit. Eciam eodem die prescriptus Cristophorus de Moralis soluit decem ducatos ad participandum omnia regalia more solito preterea duos ducatos soluit pro suo superpellitio.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: CELANI, p. 98; CASIMIRI ; Llorens, Jose. "Cristóbal de Morales. cantor en la Capilla Pontificia de Paulo III (1535-1545)." Anuario Musical 8 (1953): 39-69; STEVENSON, Robert. "Cristóbal de Morales: a Fourth-Centenary Biography." Journal of the American Musicological Society 6 (1953): 3-42; Other bibliography in TNG .