Don Hernando Franco


Don Hernando Franco
Nationality: Mexican
Born: 1532-1585
Best Known For:
Franco's music shares with other 16th century works designed for Spanish churches such characteristic as a fluent but rather austere polyphony, a conservative treatment of dissonance and chromaticism and an implied doubling of voice parts by such instruments as flutes, shawms and bassoons

Notable Compositions:
Magnificat, Lamentations, Salve Regina

Assignments:
choirmaster at Guatemala Cathedral and the Cathedral at Mexico City

REPERTOIRE: Plegaria a la Virgen (Prayer to the Virgin)

Concert Details Date
Canciones Para Los Angeles Nov 19, 1994

REPERTOIRE: Oh, Senora! (O Blessed Lady)

Concert Details Date
Canciones Para Los Angeles Nov 19, 1994

REPERTOIRE: Dios Itlazo Nantzine

Concert Details Date
Treasure Apr 30, 2006