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      "text": "Victoria was born in Ávila around 1548, trained as a cathedral choirboy, and entered the Jesuit Collegium Germanicum in Rome in 1565, where his path crossed Palestrina's — whom he possibly studied under and whose post he later succeeded to.",
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      "text": "Returning to Spain in 1587, he served as chaplain to the Dowager Empress María at a Madrid convent, and on her death composed the Officium Defunctorum (published 1605), regarded in the reference literature as his masterpiece; he died in Madrid in 1611.",
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  "winning_edge": "Renaissance polyphony is told through Palestrina; Victoria — his Spanish peer by the reference literature's own ranking — is the under-told member of the triad, stated here with the assessment attributed rather than asserted.",
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