...I shall be obliged to serve Your Lordship to send the other things bring by me to light, I think it will be for the service of God our Lord, and also the taste of Your Lordship.
...I shall be obliged to serve Your Lordship to send the other things bring by me to light, I think it will be for the service of God our Lord, and also the taste of Your Lordship.
Letter to Jaen Cathedral Chapter. 20th. of July 1593.
Silencio. Del instante
lunar, la fuente brota.
¡Dios mío! Estamos muertos.
Gira el astro. Se borra
la eternidad herida,
las heridas palomas,
el cristal donde estalla
la luz que se desploma.
Todas las almas
llevan sangrando su corona.
Sin tiempo. Sin caminos.
Como un árbol sin hoja.
Como una primavera muda,
y errante y rota...
Acordes a Tomás Luis de Victoria, 1952
I did this Officium for death and honor of the Empress Our Lady, who will be in heaven; which being, to the glory of God, so excellent I have sent to all the princes and prelates of Christendom.
Letter to Gollegium Germanicum Rectors in Rome. 1st. of February 1606.
If there were someone trying to find purposes everywhere, there is not a single thing as useful as music, which, reaching our hearts soft but deeply, through the message left in our hearing, provides a clear benefit not only for our soul but also for our body
Cantica Beata Virginis, 1581. Dedication for the Cardinal Michelle Bonello.
And though these people do not give more than they have cost the postage and printing, I am pleased, because I do not live with it, and my intention was only that churches would be served by my works.
Letter to Sigüenza Cathedral Dean. 25th. of March 1588.
...I supplicate your Lordship has great care with the correcting of this book, and that every letter is put in place.
Note to his Vesper Pslams printer.
...that glory of God our Lord has not left Spain or Italy such a particular book like this for organists.
Letter to Jaen Cathedral Chapter. 10th. of February 1601.
Likewise any kind of music has come out of some harmonic sounds produced by disharmonic voices, but reaching monarchs’ ears as something playful and pleasant, nearly heavenly.
Missae, magnificat, motecta, psalmi, 1600. Dedication for Philip III.
I miss the sweet priests' conversation, and I'm not far from returning to this holy city and die in it.
Letter to Giovanni Giovenale Ancina. 17th. of October 1586.
¿Aún abrirás los bosques?
¿Aún talarás las olas?
¿Alzarás las columnas
de la noche a la gloria?
¿Gotearás de estrellas
las rojas amapolas?
¿Harás brillar los peces
sobre la orilla sola?
¿Prenderás tus marfiles
en las cimas remotas?
¿Poblarás con tu lumbre
crepuscular la aurora?
¿Serás el mismo que eras,
Tomás Luis de Victoria?
¿Llevarás en la mano
la dorada limosna,
misteriosa moneda,
luna verde y redonda,
ojo donde los hombres
apacientan sus horas?
Acordes a Tomás Luis de Victoria, 1952