Mateo Flecha

Mateo Flecha
(b Prades, ?1481; d Poblet, ?1553). Spanish composer. According to Fétis he studied music in Barcelona with Juan Castelló.

In December 1522 he joined Lérida Cathedral as cantor and in the following year was appointed maestro de capilla, leaving that post before 31 October 1525. In 1533 his name appeared in the preparatory evidence for the synodial constitutions of the diocese of Sigüenza, and he was maestro de capilla there from perhaps 1537 to 1539. From May 1544 he held the equivalent post in the capilla of the Infantas María and Juana of Castile in the castle of Arévalo, an appointment he left in 1548, perhaps because of the marriage of María to Maximilian of Austria.