Spanish composer. Cantor and master of the choirboys at Palencia Cathedral. Cristóbal de Villalón in Ingeniosa comparación (Valladolid, 1539) ranked him second only to Francisco de Peñalosa among Spanish composers of their time.
Rivafrecha's four-voice motets Quam pulchra es, Anima mea liquefacta est and Vox dilecti mei set texts from the Song of Solomon. In Anima mea liquefacta est fermata chords end successively on tonic, dominant and subdominant chords while the amorous text is illustrated in Vox dilecti mei with interweaving phrases that succeed the opening duos.
Source: Robert Stevenson: COMPOSER quoted from Grove Music Online accessed 01 January 2009