Eduardo Martínez Torner (Oviedo, April 7, 1888 - London, February 17, 1955) was a Spanish musicologist, composer and soloist. Asturian.Son of Filomena Torner, of the family known in Oviedo as "Los Catalanes", and of Antonio Martínez Díaz, shepherd of Llamo (town of the Asturian council or municipality of Riosa), employed in the hacienda of the maternal family, the house of Regla , Oviedo building from the 18th century. He began his studies with Baldomero Fernández Casielles, Saturnino del Fresno Arroyo and Ignacio Ruiz de la Peña (Organist of the Cathedral of Oviedo), and took the first five piano courses at the Madrid Conservatory, completing his studies three years later. afternoon. From 1912 to 1914, he studied at the Schola Cantorum in Paris with Vincent d'Indy, having to return to Spain with the outbreak of the First World War. He was awarded a scholarship in 1916 by the Asturias Provincial Council to continue his studies in Madrid.