Miguel de Fuenllana was born around 1500 in Navalcarnero, Madrid, though his name suggests roots in the municipality of Fuenllana, in the province of Ciudad Real. He was blind from birth, and little else is known of his life. He served at the Spanish court, alternating with French instrumental musicians who arrived with Queen Isabel de Valois; after her death in 1568 he continued in that service, and from 1574 he served Don Sebastian of Portugal in Lisbon. He died in 1579.

Fuenllana composed the Libro de música para vihuela intitulado Orphenica Lyra (Seville, 1554), dedicated to Philip II, comprising 182 pieces in six volumes, including 51 fantasias newly composed by Fuenllana alongside works by seventeen other composers. His style was polyphonic, with a texture similar to that of Cristóbal de Morales, and in his treatment of popular melodies he is said to have presaged the accompanied melody of the Italians at the beginning of the seventeenth century.

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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Fuenllana
• https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q600102