“Requiem Officium Defunctorum”
(Requiem Mass Of The Dead).
Composer: Tomás Luis de Victoria
(1548 - 1611).
Sung By: The Tallis Scholars.
Director: Peter Phillips.
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Tomás Luis de Victoria (Italianised as “da Vittoria” (1548 – 1611) was the most famous Composer in 16th-Century Spain, and was one of the most important Composers of The Counter-Reformation, along with Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Orlando di Lasso.
Victoria was not only a Composer but also an accomplished Organist and Singer, as well as a Catholic Priest. However, he preferred the life of a Composer to that of a performer.[1]
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