Diego Casseda (also recorded as Cáseda in some sources) is one of the more elusive yet compelling figures of the Bolivian—or more properly Charcas—Baroque. Active in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, he belongs to the extraordinary musical culture that flourished in the cathedral and missionary centres of Upper Peru (modern Bolivia), where Iberian polyphonic traditions were reshaped in dialogue with local performers, languages, and ritual needs.
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