Music #309 - Tomás Luis de Victoria

Tomás Luis de Victoria  
- aka Tommaso Ludovico da Vittoria
(1548–1611, Spanish)

The most famous composer of the 16th century in Spain, he was one of the most important composers of the Counter-Reformation, along with Giovanni da Palestrina and Orlando di Lasso.

* a 1-hour BBC documentary


Officium Defunctorum  
- aka Missa pro Victoria / Victoria's Requiem

- composed for the funeral of Dowager Empress Maria

- considered among the finest of his works

O vos omnes / Oh, all ye