Francisco de la Torre
Francisco de la Torre (c. 1460 - c. 1504) was a Spanish composer mainly active in the Kingdom of Naples. His hometown may have been Seville. His music can be found in La música en la corte de los Reyes Musulmanes, edited by H. Anglès (1947–51).
Biography
Francisco served as a singer at the Seville Cathedral from at least 1464 until 1467, and probably remained connected with Seville until 1485, when he left with the Aragonese royal chapel, whose choir he had joined on 1 July 1483. He would have been back in Seville when the court returned there for a residence lasting from the end of 1490 until March 1491 (
Compositions
His surviving compositions include one courtly instrumental dance, a funeral
Ten of his compositions are included in the Palace Songbook collection. Including, notably, an instrumental dance Alta danza that uses the famous tenor La Spagna, whose choreography in other contexts is known.
References
- Juan Ruiz Jiménez. "'The Sounds of the Hollow Mountain': Musical Tradition and Innovation in Seville Cathedral in the Early Renaissance". Early Music History 29 (2010): 189–239.
- Robert Stevenson. "Torre, Francisco de la." Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online (accessed 10 September 2017), originally published in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001.
- Timothy Dickey. "Francisco de la Torre (1483–1504)." All Music Guide. 2008.
External links
- Free scores by Francisco de la Torre at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
- Works by or about Francisco de la Torre at Internet Archive
- Works by Francisco de la Torre at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
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