Composer · 1548 - 1611
Tomás Luis de Victoria
Biography
Tomás Luis de Victoria: (b Avila, 1548; d Madrid, 20 Aug 1611). Spanish composer and organist partly active in Italy.
He was not only the greatest Spanish Renaissance composer but also one of the greatest composers of church music of his day in Europe, who has been admired above all for the intensity of some of his motets and of his Offices for the Dead and for Holy Week.