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Saturday, 10/10/2026
at 6:00 PM



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At the beginning of the 14th century, the art of Ars Antiqua, which had emerged in Paris in the previous century, reached the Iberian Peninsula in full bloom. Its most significant witness is the famous Codex of Las Huelgas, the most important musical source of the Iberian Gothic.

The manuscript was created in the royal Cistercian monastery of Santa María la Real de Las Huelgas near Burgos. The monastery was founded by King Alfonso VIII of Castile and Eleanor of Plantagenet and developed into a center for women from the highest aristocratic circles of the Iberian kingdoms. The spiritual life of its nuns was intertwined with the cultural wealth and privileges of a royal environment.

In this context, the sophisticated polyphonic compositions of Ars Antiqua also found their place. The works originating from Paris combine refined religious poetry with the highly developed compositional techniques of the 13th century. They testify to a preference for complex structures, sonic textures, intertextuality, rhythmic sophistication, and spiritual symbolism. The result is musical artworks of extraordinary intellectual and artistic depth.

The program presents a selection of the diverse works from the Codex of Las Huelgas in an interpretation on the medieval organetto, an instrument that experienced great popularity and appreciation on the Iberian Peninsula during the same epoch.

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