Career
"El Viejo" is best known for his ensaladas, published in Prague in 1581 by the same nephew. Mateo Flecha directed the music at the cathedral of Lleida (September 1523 – October 1525). From there he moved to Guadalajara, in the service for six years of the Duke, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza.
In 1537 Flecha moved to Sigüenza where he served as maestro di cappella for two years.
Toward the end of his life Mateo Flecha became a monk of the Cistercian Order, living in the Monastery at Poblet, where he died in 1553. Flecha"s ensaladas influenced the madrigals of Joan Brudieu.