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No copyright infringement intended. All rights of the audiorecording belong exclusively to Gimell Records, Oxford, England. (). Free photo's by Neil Nourigat, Daniel McCullough, Johannes Plenio, John Towner, Lilian Dibbern, Michael Shannon, Carolyn V, Michael und Maartje, Shelby Miller and Tim Mossholder, available at Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1610) should undoubtedly be considered the most significant Spanish composer of his time. He exclusively devoted his life and creative energies to the Catholic Church, and became one of the leading musical figures of the Counter-Reformation. Born around 1548 in the city of Ávila — a medieval walled settlement located in the autonomous community of Castile and León — Tomás and his six siblings quickly fell under the spell of the Spanish mystic and Carmelite nun Saint Teresa of Ávila. Not surprisingly, Tomás was enrolled in the school of St. Giles, a Jesuit boy’s school praised by S
