José de Torres
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Spanish composer
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It is catalogued under topics including 1670 births, 1738 deaths and 18th-century Spanish classical composers.
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Person · Open Library
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- 4
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- Brevísima historia del Uruguay
- Diez ensayos sobre historia uruguaya
- Oribe, el drama del Estado Oriental
- Quiénes escribieron nuestra historia?
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José de Torres Martínez Bravo (Madrid, c.1665–1670 – Madrid, 3 June 1738) was one of the central figures of the Spanish Baroque, a composer, organist, theorist and music printer whose career was bound up with the Real Capilla in Madrid and with the emergence of a more Italianate idiom in Iberian sacred music. Born in Madrid in the later 1660s (sources give slightly different dates, usually 1665 or 1670), he entered the Real Colegio de Niños Cantores of the Royal Chapel as a boy <a href="https://
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- José
- Family name
- Torres
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Spain
- Place of birth
- Madrid
- Place of death
- Madrid
- Occupation
- music theorist
- Languages spoken
- Latin
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Student of
- Diego Xaraba
- Movement
- Baroque music
- Instrument
- organ
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- date of birth
- 1665-00-00
- date of death
- 1738-06-03
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Works in European collections
3 objects attributed to José de Torres, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
General rules to accompany in organo, clanicordio and harpa... or a baxo in figurative singing: distributed in three parts...
Come to celebrate prostrate: only to the SS.
General rules to accompany, in organo, clavicordio, and harpa, with only knowing how to sing the part or a baxo in figurative singing [Printed text]:] distributed in three parts: added aora by a new treatise, which explains the way to accompany the works of music, according to the Italian style