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Tomás Luis de Victoria

1548 - 1611

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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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tomás Luis de Victoria has received more than 373,565 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 58 in 2019). Tomás Luis de Victoria is the 140th most popular composer (up from 142nd in 2019), the 162nd most popular biography from Spain (down from 154th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Spanish Composer.

Tomás Luis de Victoria is most famous for his work in the 16th century. He was a composer and a singer of madrigals.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Tomás Luis de Victoria ranks 140 out of 1,451. Before him are Giovanni Gabrieli, César Cui, Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Pérotin, Anton Rubinstein, and Marin Marais. After him are Édouard Lalo, George Enescu, Jacob Obrecht, Paul Dukas, Kurt Weill, and Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1548, Tomás Luis de Victoria ranks 3. Before him are Giordano Bruno, and Simon Stevin. After him are Francisco Suárez, Vincenzo Scamozzi, Karel van Mander, Bianca Cappello, William V, Duke of Bavaria, Honda Tadakatsu, Palma il Giovane, Catherine of Cleves, and Fatma Sultan. Among people deceased in 1611, Tomás Luis de Victoria ranks 3. Before him are Charles IX of Sweden, and Margaret of Austria, Queen of Spain. After him are Henry Hudson, Bartholomeus Spranger, Eleanor de' Medici, Katō Kiyomasa, Charles, Duke of Mayenne, Sanada Masayuki, Christian II, Elector of Saxony, Kuyucu Murad Pasha, and Jan Huyghen van Linschoten.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Tomás Luis de Victoria ranks 162 out of 3,355. Before him are Francisco de Quevedo (1584), Miguel Muñoz (1922), Alfonso VIII of Castile (1155), Joan Enric Vives Sicília (1949), John II of Castile (1405), and Alfonso XI of Castile (1311). After him are Gaius Julius Hyginus (-64), Joanna of Austria, Princess of Portugal (1535), Queen Fabiola of Belgium (1928), Joaquín Sorolla (1863), John II of Aragon (1398), and Enrique Iglesias (1975).

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Among COMPOSERS In Spain

Among composers born in Spain, Tomás Luis de Victoria ranks 4. Before him are Manuel de Falla (1876), Joaquín Rodrigo (1901), and Francisco Tárrega (1852). After him are Enrique Granados (1867), Jordi Savall (1941), Antonio Soler (1729), Joaquín Turina (1882), Federico Mompou (1893), Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga (1806), Gaspar Sanz (1640), and Antonio de Cabezón (1510).

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