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Spanish composer (c. 1548 – 1611)

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.

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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".

His surviving oeuvre, unlike that of his colleagues, is almost exclusively sacred and polyphonic vocal music, set to Latin texts. As a Catholic priest, as well as an accomplished organist and singer, his career spanned both Spain and Italy.

However, he preferred the life of a composer to that of a performer.

Life and career

Family background and early years

Tomás Luis de Victoria was born around 1548, most likely in Ávila, the main residence of his family at the time.

Victoria’s birthplace has been th