Contexto histórico de la obra del P. Vicente Pérez-Jorge

Abstract

Father Vicente Pérez-Jorge's entire life spanned the XX century, renowned for the radical changes rendered in its esthetical principles, and, as a result, in its systems and procedures of composition. Musical creation was renewed in such a way that some sectors like choral singing and sacred music got left behind, entrenched in their usual manners and keeping to their traditional habits. Father Vicente Pérez-Jorge, open as he was to all modern schools of thought and artistic techniques, resourceful explorer of vanguards, fought all his life to instill elements of contemporary expression into ecclesiastical music, that is to say, that the Church adopt more modern compositional techniques proper to the XX century, while never straying from the guidelines set down by the Holy See, with only one end in mind, that of dignifying the music in our temples, but as an expression of our times.