Petrus [Pedro] Ordòñez {Paul III-Julius III}
Bass; Palencia; formerly in the Cappella Giulia (January-April, 1539 ); admitted 29 April 1539 ; mandati : single entry, June 1535 [sic?]; May 1539 -December, 1550; abbas in 1545 , 1546 and 1548 ; sent to the Council of Trent, 1546 and to the Council sessions in Bologna, 1548 ; either died in Rome in November 1551 or became maestro di cappella at the cathedral of Palencia from July 1551 -September 1578 and died in Palencia on 15 October 1585.
Ordòñez presents a possible doppelmeister problem. In the mandati list for January 1551, his name is crossed out with the marginal remark "cassatum quia defunctus" and the name disappears from all further lists. Furthermore, a notation regarding the admission of Domenico Ferrabosco dated 9 December 1550 states unequivocally that he was taking the place of "the singer Ordòñez who died a few days ago." These two separate references perhaps outweigh STEVENSON’s suggestion that the Pedro Ordòñez who is appointed maestro di capella of the cathedral of Palencia in July 1551, succeeding his recently deceased brother Alonso, and who proceeded to have a 50-year long career in Palencia and was the composer of a few secular works is the same man as the papal singer. It is, of course, not beyond the realm of possibility that there should be two 16th-century singers named Pedro Ordòñez, both from Palencia. On the other hand, that a Pedro Ordòñez should turn up in Palencia only a few months after a papal singer by the same name disappears from the mandati lists is a remarkable coincidence.
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95r: entry dated 29 April 1539 [CASIMIRI (1926), p. 185]
D. Bartolomeus Crotus magister capelle retulit in capella congregatis cantoribus qualiter SS. D. N. recepit in cantorem d. Petrum Ordoneñ Palenti. diocesis hispanum et propter hoc magister capellae induit eum cotta ut moris est et ipse juravit ut aliis observare etc. quecumque etc.
95v: entry dated 4 May 1539 [CASIMIRI (1926), p. 186]
Eodem die Petrus Ordognes soluit regalia duc. 12 pro participandi ut alii.
Mandati 890
136v: entry dated 9 December 1550
D. Dominico Farabosco cantori capelle S. S.tis
D. Dominici Poraboso unius ex cantoribus capelle Sua S.tis in locum quondam N. Ordognez cantoris superioribus diebus defuncti surrogato ducatos auri de camera novem pro sua mensis novembris proxime elapsi quo in dicta capella deservire cepit provisione quos sic solutos in urbis et illius computis acceptabimus et admittemus acceptarique et admittis faciemus.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: BIBLIOGRAPHY: CELANI, p. 100; CASIMIRI ; FREY, Die Diarien, p. 133; LLORENS , Josef. "Cinco cantores españoles en la capilla pontificia," Anuario Musical 36 (1981): 69-90; Robert STEVENSON , "Spanish Polyphonists in the Age of the Armada," Inter-American Music Reiew 12 (1992): 17-114, espc. 42-43, Note 18.