Toward the end of his life, Victoria served for sixteen years as a - TopicsExpress



          

Toward the end of his life, Victoria served for sixteen years as a personal chaplain and musician to the Dowager Empress Maria. Sister of Philip II and widow of the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II, the Empress lived in retirement in a royal convent in Madrid. For her funeral in 1603, Victoria composed a requiem mass, the Officium Defunctorum, which was published two years later. On the title page he calls it the song of the swan, referring to the Empress, but it also can be thought of as Victorias swan song, for he published no more.
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 22:08:54 +0000

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