Roel Del Río, Antonio Ventura

ANTONIO VENTURA ROEL DEL RÍOROEL DEL RÍO, ANTONIO VENTURAANTONIO VENTURA ROEL DEL RÍO [active mid eighteenth century] As was typical of Spanish theorists at the time, Antonio Ventura Roel del Río drew heavily upon past authors, particularly CERONE and KIRCHER, in the development of his own treatise on music, Institución harmónica: O doctrina musical, theórica, y práctica (1748). He utilized his position as an authority to poor advantage in his later Reparos músicos (1764), for SOLER, the target…