Officium defunctorum
From 25 November 2023 to 29 November 2023/ Spain / Ubeda, Salamanca & Madrid
Vox Luminis presents a program with polyphony of the two great sixteenth-century Spanish composers who worked in Rome for a long time: the Sevillian Cristóbal de Morales and, half a century younger, the Castilian Tomás Luís de Victoria. Victoria’s Officium defunctorum in 6 parts was composed in 1603 for the funeral of Charles’ daughter Empress Maria of Austria. The work, which Victoria himself considered his swan song, symbolically marks the end of an era, that of the imitative polyphony that had dominated the world of European music for more than a century.
