Tomás Luis de Victoria

✶January 1, 1548

†August 27, 1611

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About their life

Tomás Luis de Victoria was the most famous Spanish composer of the Renaissance. He stands with Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Orlande de Lassus as among the principal composers of the late Renaissance, and was "admired above all for the intensity of some of his motets and of his Offices for the Dead and for Holy Week". His surviving oeuvre, unlike that of his colleagues, is almost exclusively sacred and polyphonic vocal music, set to Latin texts. As a Catholic priest, as well as an accomplished organist and singer, his career spanned both Spain and Italy. However, he preferred the life of a composer to that of a performer.

Spanish composer (c. 1548 – 1611)

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Biography from the article Tomás Luis de Victoria on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.