See also: Correa (homonymy)

Francisco Correa (of Arauxo, of Acebedo) , (born towards the September 16th 1584 with Seville, dead in October or November 1654 with Segovia) was a Organiste and considered Andalusian type-setter, at one period hinge between the Rebirth and the Baroque.

Wire of a workman, it occupied its first post of organist to the San Salvador church of Seville as from 1599. It was ordered priest in 1608. Durable meannesses and quibbling of which it was victim on behalf of the ecclesiastics of its entourage pushed it to try to find, in a reiterated way, a station in several Spanish cathedrals. It is only in 1636 qu ' it obtained finally a post office with the cathedral of Jaén. A few years later - in 1640 - it succeeds in improving its situation as organist of the cathedral of Segovia, city where it died in 1654.

The importance of Correa de Arauxo as regards history of the music, is due to the method of Orgue ( Facultad Organica ) which it wrote and which was printed in 1626 with Alcalá de Henares. It includes not only 69 Tiento S of which some for registers partial (a characteristic of the organ Spanish), fingering charts and liturgical transcriptions of songs but also an introduction detailed to the touch of the organ which gives completely exclusive indications on the organistic interpretation of its time.

Except this Facultad Organica , there remains no other work of this type-setter. Its music is strongly marked with the seal of the contrapuntic tradition and harmonic of the Rebirth, but its rhythmic animation and its Mélisme S calling virtuosity are also typical Hispanic music of this time.