Cornago Johannes, Juan, second half of 15th century, a composer of Spanish origin (?), OFM. He initially served at the royal courts in Naples and Rome, and from around 1473 as a singer at the court of King Ferdinand V of Aragon in Barcelona. Cornaga’s surviving works include: 1 three-voice mass, 1 four-voice tenor motet, Patres nostri peccaverunt, based on the melody of the Italian-Spanish song Ayo iusto lo mappa mundi, and over a dozen three- and four-voice secular songs, mainly to Castilian texts, including the four-voice Gentil dama, non se gana and the 3-voice pieces: Pues que Dios te fiso tal, Donde stas que non te veo, Yerra eon poco saber, Senora, qual soy venido. J. Ockeghem added a fourth voice to the 3-voice villancico Qu’es mi vida preguntáis.
Literature: A.W. Atlas Music at the Aragonese Court of Naples, Cambridge and New York 1985; R. Stevenson Spanish Musical Impact Beyond the Pyrenees (1250–1500), in: España en la música de occidente, ed. E. Cesares, I. Fernandez de la Cuesta and J. López-Calo, Madrid 1987; A.W. Atlas Courtly Patronage in the Fifteenth Century. Some Questions, in the proceedings of the 14th Congress of the International Society for Musicology, held in Bologna in 1987, Turin 1990.
Johannes Cornago Complete Works, ed. R.L. Gerber, «Recent Researches in the Music of the Middle Ages and Early Renaissance» XV, Madison 1984
