Talk:Tomás Luis de Victoria

Counter Reformation Composers
Surely not right to list Byrd here (even if he had RC sympathies) since his formal work shows no such sympathy! Linuxlad 14:01, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

According to the Grove Music Online, Victoria died on August 20, 1611, not August 27. 140.147.233.105 (talk) 14:24, 29 August 2011 (UTC)


 * You're right ... Fixed. Antandrus (talk) 16:39, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

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I've removed "He is sometimes known as the 'Spanish Palestrina' because he may have been taught by Palestrina." Not in reference, and even 'sometimes' seems dubious to me. "Even though Victoria is typically viewed as being the leading composer of the Roman School, the school was also heavily marked by other Spanish composers such as Morales, Guerrero, and Escobedo." I can't figure out the reference, but "the leading composer" needlessly raises eyebrows. Compare Slominsky (Concise Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians) though: "..He is generally regarded as a leading representative of the Roman School, but it should be remembered that, before the appearance of Palestrina, this school was profoundly marked by Hispanic influences through the work of Morales, Guerrero, Escobedo and other Spanish composers resident in Rome. Thus Victoria inherited at least as much from his own countrymen as from Palestrina…" Without the context of a discussion of Victoria's style the remark is not terribly useful. Sparafucil (talk) 10:36, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

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Date of death
August 27 appears on sister Wikipedias, but both NG and Baker's 7th Concise give Aug. 20 without any comment. This doesn't seem to be an old style/new style issue, so where did 27th come from? Sparafucil (talk) 22:40, 17 August 2021 (UTC)
 * According to the blame tool, changed it back in 2014 but there isn't any further info as to why.  A citation needed tag was added in 2019, and it was changed to 20/27 in 2020. --Pokechu22 (talk) 22:46, 17 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Now it looks like Aug. 20th might be the more curious of the two dates, if this death certificate can't be explained away! Sparafucil (talk) 22:51, 17 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Interesting problem, and all I find are contradictions. I wonder if the death certificate is a recent find? (Seems like a stretch; someone would have looked, right?) Both editions of the New Grove that I have, have 20 August. Britannica has 27 August. But there it is in handscript -- 27 August. We could cite both dates, but I'd be inclined to go with the 27th. The NG article by Robert Stevenson just may not have been updated in a while. Antandrus (talk) 23:19, 17 August 2021 (UTC)
 * The certificate has been on the page since 2012 or earlier, with the image itself having a last-modified header of 15 Sep 2011 when it was archived in 2012. So, it's been around for a while. --Pokechu22 (talk) 23:28, 17 August 2021 (UTC)
 * I'd be inclined to go with 27 Aug. too, if it weren't so hard to understand how Stevens & Slominsky could go wrong: Fétis says "On croit qu'il est mort en 1608"; Pedrell (vol. 7 p. lxxvi) says Cerone speaks of Victoria in 1613 as if he were living, but "toute diligence a été inutile pour s'en assureer, malgré d'incessantes recherches.".
 * I stumbled btw on this problem via Wikipedia_talk:Selected_anniversaries/August_27; I suspect Victoria will be slightly overshadowed this year in any case. Sparafucil (talk) 01:35, 18 August 2021 (UTC)