With their recent recording of the Officium defunctorum, the Kammerchor Saarbr\u00fccken (Chamber Choir Saarbruecken) and its director Georg Gr\u00fcn commemorate the 400th anniversary of Tom\u00e1s Luis de Victoria\u2019s death: one of the greatest Spanish composers, de Victoria spent his entire life and composed all of his works in the service of the Catholic Church. De Victoria composed his well-known requiem Officium defunctorum for the funeral of the late widowed empress, Maria of Austria, in 1603. It is considered the high-point within his \u0153uvre, combining all elements of de Victoria\u2019s thinking and featuring his compositional hallmarks. Alongside de Victoria\u2019s Officium defunctorum Georg Gr\u00fcn has recorded three motets by the same composer which are, like the requiem, not only set for six-parts but also relate to the topic of human mortality in just as profound a manner, although they are almost unknown today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
With their recent recording of the Officium defunctorum, the Kammerchor Saarbr\u00fccken (Chamber Choir Saarbruecken) and its director Georg Gr\u00fcn commemorate the 400th anniversary of Tom\u00e1s Luis de Victoria\u2019s death: one of the greatest Spanish composers, de Victoria spent his entire life and composed all of his works in the service of the Catholic Church. De … Continue reading Tom\u00e1s Luis de Victoria: |Requiem Officium defunctorum<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[700,1315],"tags":[925,924],"class_list":["post-10137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ensemble","category-music","tag-ensemble-thios-omilos","tag-hans-leo-hassler"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10138,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10137\/revisions\/10138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}