About José de Torres
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
