Ambrosio Cotes

Ambrosio (Coronado de) Cotes (c. 1550–1603) was a Spanish Renaissance composer.

[1] Cotes was born in Villena, Alicante around 1550 of noble birth.

Like many other Spanish composers of the period, his secular villancicos and canzonetas have been lost.

Of the sacred works 25 polyphonic compositions are preserved in Granada, a mass in the Cathedral of Valencia, and a further 3 motets in the Colegio del Patriarca.

Four separate pieces without words have been published by López Calo, who believes they are the only instrumental works for church to survive from the sixteenth century.