Discussion:Joseph de Torres y Vergara

Confusion with José de Torres

My apologies for writing this comment in English. The interpretation of Joseph de Torres y Vergara as a composer is most likely a confusion with Spanish composer José de Torres (1670–1738). See Begoña Lolo's article in Grove Music Online, DOI:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.40012:

"In all likelihood Torres y Martínez Bravo is also the author of the keyboard collection Libro que contiene onze partidos del M[aestr]o D[o]n Joseph de Torres, presently in the Jesús Sánchez Garza collection in the Centro Nacional de Investigación, Documentación, e Información Musical in Mexico City. Felipe Ramírez Ramírez (in his study of the collection, Mexico City, 1993) has contended, on the other hand, that it is actually the work of Joseph de Torres y Vergara (1661–1727) who was a well-rounded and prominent figure in Mexico in the early 18th-century. Torres y Vergara was a lawyer, deacon, priest, consultant to the Inquisition, school master and chantre, but there is no record of him being a composer, keyboardist or practising musician. Given the plentitude of Torrres y Martínez Bravo’s scores in New World archives and his expertise as an organist, it seems most probable that he, rather than Torres y Vergara, authored the organ pieces in this manuscript."

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