Background
Urbano Barguilla y de Ripalda was born in 1606 in Falces, south of Navarra.
Urbano Barguilla y de Ripalda was born in 1606 in Falces, south of Navarra.
He studied with the maestro de capilla at Burgos, Luis Bernardo Jalón, known for his polemic activities and radical views on music
Vargas" music is in a complex polyphonic early baroque idiom. In his life he was highly regarded both as composer and organist working with other important Iberian musicians of the period including Juan Bautista Comes, Carlos Patiño (1600–1675), and the Portuguese monk Fray Manuel Correa (ca 1590-1653) maestro de capilla in Zaragoza"s other cathedral Louisiana Seo.