Tomás Luis de Victoria
Renaissance · 1549–1611
Tomás Luis de Victoria wrote nothing but church music, and never seems to have wanted otherwise. Born in Ávila, Spain, he was a cathedral choirboy there before being sent to Rome, where he spent about two decades, was ordained a priest, and worked in circles close to Palestrina, whose teaching post he eventually took over.
In the 1580s he returned to Spain as chaplain to the Dowager Empress María, sister of King Philip II, and served the Madrid convent where she lived for the rest of his career, preferring that quiet post to grander offers. When she died he wrote a Requiem for her funeral rites, published in 1605, and composed little afterward. All of his music sets Latin prayers for unaccompanied voices, intense, dark, and direct.
Start with that Requiem of 1605, sung by a small choir, or with a recording of his music for Holy Week.
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Vocal
- Ad coenam agni providi
- Aestimatus sum
- Alma Redemptoris mater
- Alma Redemptoris mater
- Amicus meus
- Animam meam dilectam
- Ardens est cor meum
- Ascendens Christus in altum
- Astiterunt reges
- Aurea luce et decore
- Ave Maria
- Ave Maria
- Ave Maria, gratia plena
- Ave maris stella
- Ave regina coelorum
- Ave regina coelorum
- Beata es, Virgo Maria
- Caligaverunt oculi mei
- Christe, redemptor omnium
- Conditor alme siderum
- Congratulamini mihi
- Cum beatus Ignatius
- Date ei et fructu
- Descendit angelus
- Dixit Dominus Domino meo
- Doctor bonus
- Domine, non sum dignus
- Domine ad adjuvandum me festina
- Dum complerentur dies Pentecostes
- Duo seraphim clamabant
- Ecce quomodo moritur
- Ego sum panis vivus
- Ego vir videns
- Eram quasi agnus
- Gaude Maria
- Gaudent in coelis animae Sanctorum
- Hosanna Filii David
- Hostis Herodes
- Incipit oratorio Jeremiae Prophetae
- Iste sanctus pro lege
- Jesu Dulcis Memoria
- Jesum tradidit impius
- Judas mercator
- Laetatus sum
- Lamentations for Good Friday
- Lamentations for Holy Saturday
- Lamentations for Maundy Thursday
- Lauda mater ecclesia
- Lauda Sion
- Laudate Dominum omnes gentes
- Laudate pueri Dominum
- Litaniae Beatae Mariae
- Litaniae de Beata Virgine
- Liturgia de Pascua en el Madrid de los Austrias
- Magi viderunt stellam
- Magnificat octavi toni
- Magnificat primi toni
- Magnificat primi toni a 4
- Magnificat quarti toni
- Magnificat Quinti toni
- Magnificat sexti tone
- Manum suam misit hostis
- Misericordiae Domini
- Missa Alma Redemptoris mater, for double choir and organ
- Missa Ascendens Christus
- Missa Ave maris stella
- Missa Ave regina coelorum
- Missa De Beata Maria Virgine
- Missa dum complerentur
- Missa Gaudeamus
- Missa Gaudeamus
- Missa Laetatus sum
- Missa O magnum mysterium
- Missa O Quam gloriosum
- Missa Pro defunctis
- Missa Pro defunctis
- Missa Pro victoria
- Missa Salve regina
- Missa Simile est regnum coelorum
- Missa Vidi speciosam
- Ne Timeas Maria
- Nigra sum sed formosa
- O decus apostolicum
- O doctor optime
- O Domine Jesu Christe
- Officium Hebdomadae Sanctae
- O Lux et Decus Hispaniae
- O magnum mysterium
- O quam gloriosum est regnum
- O regem coeli
- O sacrum convivium
- O sacrum convivium
- O vos omnes
- Pange lingua
- Pange lingua gloriosi 'more hispano'
- Popule meus
- Pueri Hebraeorum
- Quam pulchri sunt gressus tui
- Quem vidistis, pastores
- Recessit pastor noster
- Regina caeli
- Resplenduit facies eius, motet
- Salve regina
- Salve regina
- Salve regina
- Sancta Maria, succurre miseris
- Senex puerum portabat
- Seniores populi
- Sepulto Domino
- Super flumina Babylonis
- Surrexit Pastor Bonus
- Tamquam ad latronem
- Tantum ergo
- Te Deum
- Tenebrae factae sunt
- Tibi, Christe
- Tradiderunt me
- Trahe me post te
- Tristes erant apostoli
- Tu es Petrus
- Una hora
- Unus ex discipulis
- Ut queant laxis
- Vadam, et circumibo civitatem
- Veni, Sancte Spiritus
- Veni Creator Spiritus
- Vere languores nostros
- Vexilla regis
- Vidi aquam
- Vidi speciosam
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