Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548 – August 20, 1611) was a Spanish composer of t… Read Full Bio ↴Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548 – August 20, 1611) was a Spanish composer of the late Renaissance. He was the most famous composer of the 16th century in Spain, and is considered by many to be second only to Palestrina as a composer of sacred polyphony at the time.
He was born in Ávila, likely studying with Escobedo at Segovia early in his life. He is known to have gone to Rome around 1564, where he joined the monastery founded by St. Ignatius Loyola as part of the fight against Lutheranism. He may have studied with Palestrina around this time, though the evidence is circumstantial; certainly he was influenced by the Italian's style. In 1575 he was ordained as a priest, after a period of service at the monastery as maestro di cappella. He did not stay in Italy, however; in 1586 he returned to Spain, this time in the service of Empress Maria, who was entering the convent of Descalzas Reales in Madrid. Victoria remained at the convent until the end of his life, performing several roles—priest, composer, director of the choir, and organist.
Victoria is the most significant composer of the Counter-Reformation in Spain, and one of the most well-regarded composers of sacred music in the late Renaissance, a genre he devoted himself to exclusively. His works have undergone a revival in the 20th century, with numerous recent recordings. Many commentators hear in his music a mystical intensity and direct emotional appeal, qualities considered by some to be lacking in the arguably more rhythmically and harmonically placid music of Palestrina.
Stylistically his music shuns the elaborate counterpoint of many of his contemporaries, preferring simple line and homophonic textures, yet seeking rhythmic variety and sometimes including intense and surprising contrasts. His melodic writing and use of dissonance is more free than that of Palestrina; occasionally he uses intervals which are prohibited in the strict application of 16th century counterpoint, such as ascending major sixths, or even occasional diminished fourths (for example, a melodic diminished fourth occurs in a passage representing grief in his motet Sancta Maria, succurre). Victoria sometimes uses dramatic word-painting, of a kind usually found only in madrigals. Some of his sacred music uses instruments (a practice which is not uncommon in Spanish sacred music of the 16th century), and he also wrote polychoral works for more than one spatially separated group of singers, in the style of the composers of the Venetian school who were working at St. Mark's in Venice.
Published in 1605 under the title Officium Defunctorum, sex vocibus, in obitu et obsequiis sacrae imperatricis, one of his finest, most beautiful, and most refined works is the great Requiem Mass he wrote in 1603 for the funeral of Empress Maria, who had been his employer since 1586, and who was the sister of Philip II and wife of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor. It is also notable the serene emotion of every one of the 37 pieces that form his Officium Hebdomadae Sanctae of 1585, a collection of motets and lamentations linked to the Holy Week Catholic celebrations.
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He was born in Ávila, likely studying with Escobedo at Segovia early in his life. He is known to have gone to Rome around 1564, where he joined the monastery founded by St. Ignatius Loyola as part of the fight against Lutheranism. He may have studied with Palestrina around this time, though the evidence is circumstantial; certainly he was influenced by the Italian's style. In 1575 he was ordained as a priest, after a period of service at the monastery as maestro di cappella. He did not stay in Italy, however; in 1586 he returned to Spain, this time in the service of Empress Maria, who was entering the convent of Descalzas Reales in Madrid. Victoria remained at the convent until the end of his life, performing several roles—priest, composer, director of the choir, and organist.
Victoria is the most significant composer of the Counter-Reformation in Spain, and one of the most well-regarded composers of sacred music in the late Renaissance, a genre he devoted himself to exclusively. His works have undergone a revival in the 20th century, with numerous recent recordings. Many commentators hear in his music a mystical intensity and direct emotional appeal, qualities considered by some to be lacking in the arguably more rhythmically and harmonically placid music of Palestrina.
Stylistically his music shuns the elaborate counterpoint of many of his contemporaries, preferring simple line and homophonic textures, yet seeking rhythmic variety and sometimes including intense and surprising contrasts. His melodic writing and use of dissonance is more free than that of Palestrina; occasionally he uses intervals which are prohibited in the strict application of 16th century counterpoint, such as ascending major sixths, or even occasional diminished fourths (for example, a melodic diminished fourth occurs in a passage representing grief in his motet Sancta Maria, succurre). Victoria sometimes uses dramatic word-painting, of a kind usually found only in madrigals. Some of his sacred music uses instruments (a practice which is not uncommon in Spanish sacred music of the 16th century), and he also wrote polychoral works for more than one spatially separated group of singers, in the style of the composers of the Venetian school who were working at St. Mark's in Venice.
Published in 1605 under the title Officium Defunctorum, sex vocibus, in obitu et obsequiis sacrae imperatricis, one of his finest, most beautiful, and most refined works is the great Requiem Mass he wrote in 1603 for the funeral of Empress Maria, who had been his employer since 1586, and who was the sister of Philip II and wife of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor. It is also notable the serene emotion of every one of the 37 pieces that form his Officium Hebdomadae Sanctae of 1585, a collection of motets and lamentations linked to the Holy Week Catholic celebrations.
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Tomás Luis de Victoria Lyrics
We have lyrics for these tracks by Tomás Luis de Victoria:
Ave Maria Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum; benedicta tu in muli…
Jueves Santo 2nd Night: Amicus Meus Amicus meus osculi me tradidit signo: Quem osculatus fuero, …
Jueves Santo, 2nd Night: Amicus Meus Amicus meus osculi me tradidit signo: Quem osculatus fuero, …
Jueves Santo, 2nd Night: Judas Mercator Pessimus Judas mercator pessimus osculo petiit Dominum; Ille ut agnus…
Jueves Santo, 2nd Night: Unus Ex Discipulis Unus ex discipulis meis tradet me hodie: Vae illi per quem…
Jueves Santo, 3rd Night: Eram Quasi Agnus Eram quasi agnus innocens: Ductus sum ad immolandum, et nesc…
Jueves Santo, 3rd Night: Seniores Populi Seniores populi consilium fecerunt, Ut Jesum dolo tenerent, …
Jueves Santo, 3rd Night: Una Hora Una hora non potuistis vigilare mecum, Qui exhortabamini mor…
O Magnum Mysterium O magnum mysterium, et admirabile sacramentum, ut animalia v…
O vos omnes O vos ómnes qui transítis per víam, atténdite et vidéte: …
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@OrbiliusMagister
L'intonazione di questo coro è così cristallina che rende ogni possibile disquisizione sulla frequenza dei diapason dell'epoca pura accademia: altrettanto indiscutibili le scelte stilistiche di espressività contenuta e affidata alle armonie dell'autore piuttosto che a escursioni dinamiche preromantiche... auguro a chiunque che almeno una volta in vita possa ascoltare dal vivo appropriatamente (per esempio ad una via crucis) questo responsorio; meglio ancora possa cantarlo... e meglio di tutto possa dirigerlo.
@mlindeblad1
This is what we should be listening to during Lent as we get closer and closer to holy week. Our Lord‘s suffering, death and greatness becomes clearer and clearer the closer we get to him.
@c.rucireta4755
Da Victoria un colosso per varietà, drammaticità, capacità di innovazione. Esecuzione meravigliosa.
@robertfennell9631
To me , Thomas Da Victotia’s music has every human emotion expressed in every barr
@palashvictor
I love this piece
@jameycollins725
Early music polyphony at its finest!
@thesarahshow1093
Where do I get a good pdf of this song?
@LucaBertaiola66
voce maschile anche per "Altus" ... Contralti ... mi sembra in falsetto, o sbaglio ?
@st.haborym
Do the ends justify the means?
@jaspermay5813
Never.