Tomás Luis de Victoria

Spanish composer (c. 1548-1611), in the reference literature arguably the most famous Spanish composer of all time and the peer of Palestrina and Lasso in late Renaissance polyphony. Trained in Rome at the Collegium Germanicum, chaplain to the Dowager Empress María in Madrid, he closed his work with the Officium Defunctorum of 1605, regarded as his masterpiece.