Pérez Martinez, Vicente
Pérez Martinez, Vicente
Pérez Martinez, Vicente, Spanish singer and music editor; b. Cifuentes, near Madrid, date unknown; d. Madrid, Jan. 2, 1800. He was a tenor in the Madrid royal chapel from 1770. He publ. a valuable anthology of plainsong, Prontuario del cantollano gregoriano...segun practica de la muy santa primade iglesia de Toledo (3 vols., 1799–1800; 2nd ed. by A. Hernandez, 1828–29).
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