Some notes on the Spanish composer Hernando Franco’s activity in Portugal

Abstract

This text explores the passage of sixteenth-century Spanish composer and chapel master Hernando Franco in Portugal, prior to his moving to the Spanish colonies of the New World. We depart from the research work of Spanish musicologist María Gembero-Ustárroz, who mentions the presence of Franco in Lisbon, adding some contextual notes to what might have been his duties there and the surrounding soundscape.