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| | Tomás Luis de Victoria |
 | | Between 1578 and 1585, he collaborated with the Italian priest, Felipe Neri, in the composition of religious music that was the culmination of XVIth Century style, although his works of this type are not extant. |
 | | Starting in 1586 he was named chaplain for the Spanish Dowager Empress María (the widow of the Emperor Maximilian II), and he settled in Madrid where he died in 1611. |
 | | Des del punt de vista musical les seues 20 mises i 44 motets són, d'una banda, conservadores en l'hàbil utilització del contrapunt i en la seua textura polifònica coherent, i, d'altra, resulten innovadors por la fonda expressió emotiva del text amb una intensitat mística molt espanyola. |
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