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      • 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".
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  2. Tomás Luis de Victoria (sometimes Italianised as da Vittoria; c. 1548 – c. 20–27 August 1611) 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 ...

  3. Apr 12, 2024 · Tomás Luis de Victoria (born c. 1548, near Avila, Spain—died Aug. 27, 1611, Madrid) was a Spanish composer who ranks with Palestrina and Orlando di Lasso among the greatest composers of the 16th century. Victoria was sent by King Philip II of Spain in 1565 to prepare for holy orders at the German College in Rome.

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  4. Jun 27, 2018 · VICTORIA, TOMÁS LUIS DE (1548 – 1611), preeminent composer of the Spanish Renaissance. Rivaled only by Giovanni da Palestrina and Orlando di Lasso among his European contemporaries, Victoria produced an important body of work that was widely distributed, often reprinted, and highly praised from his time to ours.

  5. May 28, 2013 · Thome [Tomás] Luis de Victoria (b. c . 1548–d. 1611) is the best-known Spanish composer of the Renaissance. His surviving output, small in comparison to those of Palestrina and Lassus, consists entirely of sacred polyphony with Latin texts.

  6. www.uma.es › victoria › english-biografiaBiography - UMA

    Victoria was the greatest spanish polyphonist of all times, and probably one of the best of his time in Europe. He was born in Avila around 1548, as the seventh child of Francisca Suarez de la Concha and Francisco Luis de Victoria. Although they would still have four more children, Francisco Luis de Victoria was to die when the composer was ...

  7. Tomás Luis de Victoria (sometimes Italianised as da Vittoria) was one of the most important composers of the Counter-Reformation. A composer of equal stature with Palestrina and Orlando di Lasso, Victoria was also an accomplished organist and singer. Also being a Catholic priest, he devoted himself to the composition of sacred music.

  8. Tomás Luis de Victoria. The greatest Spanish Renaissance composer, Victoria also ranks alongside Palestrina as one of the greatest European composers of church music. He is particularly admired for his parody masses and motets, two of the best known being O vos ommes and O magnum mysterium.

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