Following the great success of his lecture on French Baroque music, Leonardo García-Alarcón continues his exploration of major European musical movements with a new event dedicated this time to the fascinating world of Spanish Baroque music and its extraordinary influence beyond the continent.

Over the course of an hour, he will trace the origins of this music back to the 16th century, deeply rooted in the tradition of Roman polyphony, before tracing its spread to the New World during the conquest of the Americas. For Spanish music was not simply exported: it was transformed.

Throughout this journey, Leonardo García-Alarcón will shed light on a phenomenon as fascinating as it is little known: the emergence, in the Americas, of a new musical language, born from the encounter between European traditions and local cultures. There, music adapts to vernacular languages, draws on multiple influences, and takes shape in novel practices, where composers of diverse origins—children of colonists and children of indigenous peoples—come together.

From this history emerges a unique, deeply hybrid Baroque style, where inherited forms are transformed through contact with other worlds. A music in motion, alive, marked by tensions and encounters, which Leonardo García-Alarcón will bring to life with the passion, clarity, and commitment that are the hallmark of his presentations.