Biography
Pedro de San Lorenzo was a 17th Century composer.
The mid-17th-century Obra in the First Mode by Pedro de San Lorenzo may need its title explained. “Obra” could mean “a work” (as in opus), but was sometimes used in the same sense as tiento, a polyphonic work consisting of worked- out imitative counterpoint with sections of freer passagework: a less formal form than the fantasia or its later offspring, the fugue. (The tiento was what Italians called a ricercar.) Pedro de San Lorenzo’s Obra is a carefully worked-out tiento. Nothing is known about the composer other than that he was probably a monk.
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