José De Torres

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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, where he received a thorough training in singing, organ and composition. Among his teachers were Cristóbal Galán in composition and members of the Xaraba–Bruna organist dynasty, and by his late teens he had already won, by competitive examination, the post of organist to the Capilla Real. He quickly distinguished himself not only as a performer but also as a pedagogue, taking on the musical direction of the choir school that had formed him. At the turn of the century Torres found himself at the heart of the dynastic transition from the Habsburgs to the Bourbons. The accession of Philip V and the overhaul of court institutions disrupted the Royal Chapel, but once his political loyalty was clarified Torres was reinstated and increasingly entrusted with responsibility for the chapel’s day-to-day musical life, particularly after the exile of Sebastián Durón in 1706. During this period he composed both large-scale sacred works and stage music; the zarzuela El imposible mayor en amor le vence Amor belongs

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José de Torres: Días de Gloria y Muerte. Dos Misas de José de Torres (El Patrimonio Musical Hispano 6)

José de Torres: Amoroso Señor

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Al Ayre Espanol Edition

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De Torres: Complete Organ Music

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Torres: Spanish Solo Cantatas

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Barroco Espanol Vol.1

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En Tierna Calma

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Música De La Guerra De Sucessió Espanyola

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Música de la Guerra de Successió Espanyola

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Cantatas Profanas. José de Torres (ca.1665-1738) - Manuscrito Mackworth

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Silence & Music

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Quarenta Horas

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