José Ximénez, José Jiménez or Jusepe Ximénez (baptized 25 December 1601; died 9 August 1672) was a Spanish organist and the composer of 23 surviving works. Born in

Zaragoza Zaragoza, also known in English as Saragossa,''Encyclopædia Britannica'"Zaragoza (conventional Saragossa)" is the capital city of the Zaragoza Province and of the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. It lies by the Ebro river and its tributari ...

, he became the assistant of

Sebastian Aguilera de Heredia Sebastian Aguilera de Heredia (August 1561 – 16 December 1627Robert Cummings, "Sebastián Aguilera de Heredia", aAllMusic.com/ref>) was a Spanish monk, musician and composer. He was first the organist at the cathedral in Huesca from 1585 to 160 ...

in 1620 and succeeded him as principal organist at La Seo after the latter's death in December 1627. In 1654 he turned down an appointment to the royal chapel in Madrid, and seems to have spent the rest of his life in Saragossa. Ximénez's works have appeared in collections by F. Pedrell: (''Antología de organistas clásicos españoles'', i Barcelona, 1908) and H. Anglés: (''Antología de organistas españoles del siglo XVII'', i–ii Barcelona, 1965–6). A collected edition by

Willi Apel Willi Apel (10 October 1893 – 14 March 1988) was a German-American musicologist and noted author of a number of books devoted to music. Among his most important publications are the 1944 edition of '' The Harvard Dictionary of Music'' and ''Fre ...

appeared as vol. 31 of
Corpus of Early Keyboard Music
'.

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Spanish male classical composers Spanish Baroque composers Spanish classical organists Male classical organists Classical composers of church music Cathedral organists 1601 births 1672 deaths 17th-century classical composers People from Zaragoza 17th-century male musicians {{Spain-composer-stub