Joseph de Torres (c.1670-1738) - Quien podrà tus disfrazes amore
Performers: Mаría Luz Álvаrez (soprano); Gаbinеtе Armónico
Painting: Manuel de la Cruz Vázquez (1750-1792) - La Feria de Madrid en la plaza de la Cebada (c.1775)
Further info: Joseph de Torres (1670-1738) - Cantatas profanas
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Spanish composer, organist, theorist and publisher. He entered the royal
chapel boys’ school in 1680, when he must have been between seven and
ten years old. His training as an organist was almost certainly
undertaken at the Daroca school by Pablo Bruna, and he was probably
tutored in composition by the then master of the royal chapel, Cristóbal
Galán. Torres was appointed organist of the royal chapel on 14 December
1686, and taught at the school there from 1689 to 1691. The forced
exile of the maestro de capilla Sebastián Durón, because of his support
for the Archduke of Austria in the War of the Spanish Succession, gave
rise to a vacancy in the royal chapel which was filled temporarily by
Torres from 1708 until his definitive appointment on 3 December 1718. A
second chapel functioned from 1721 at La Granja, where the court had
moved as a result of the king’s melancholy state of mind. It was
dissolved in 1724, at the start of Felipe V’s second mandate, after the
untimely death of his son Luis I, in whose favour he had abdicated. This
resulted in the incorporation of the musicians of this chapel, and of
their Italian director Felipe Falconi, into the royal chapel in Madrid,
which was thereafter headed by two masters, Torres and Falconi, symbols
of the musical aesthetics of the day which oscillated between the
national style and the new italianizing tendencies. The fire of 1734 in
the old Alcázar of Madrid forced Torres to become more active; along
with Antonio Literes he was obliged to compose intensively in an effort
to recover and replace the music archive, which had been destroyed.
Falconi was not called upon to cooperate in this task. Torres’s first
marriage was to Teresa de Eguiluz, with whom he had two sons, José and
Manuel. He married his second wife, Agustina Enciso y Aguado, just four
months before his own death. He was secretly buried in the convent of
Carmen Calzado. Falconi had died the previous month.
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