New World music making at Swann's Americana sale
Billed as the first music to be both composed and printed in the New World, Juan Navarro’s setting of '…Quatuor passions Christi' was one of several items of Mexican origin to do well in a recent Americana sale.
Sold for $26,000 (£20,000) at Swann (25/20/12% buyer’s premium), its composer was a Franciscan mon…