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Lobo, Alonso: Versa est in luctum

set for recorders (AATBBB), viols (TrTrTBBB) or other early instruments by Mark Davenport.

Only in the last half of the twentieth century has Alonso Lobo (ca. 1555-1617) been reestablished as a composer of high stature. The renewed recognition has developed through recent discoveries of his manuscripts, particularly in Mexico, and by a noticeable increase in recordings of his music by established choirs. Lobo followed a long line of highly influential and well-known Spanish composers-a group that includes Cristobal de Morales (ca. 1500-1553), Francisco Guerrero (1528-1599), and Tom‡s Luis de Victoria (ca. 1548-1611) among its ranks. As an aide to Guerrero (and probable successor at the Seville Cathedral in Spain) Lobo built a solid and esteemed reputation as maestro de capilla and composer.
Lobo's inspired six-part motet Versa est in luctum, was composed for the funeral of King Philip II of Spain, in 1598, and beautifully captures the remorse of such an occasion. The piece was published shortly after in his Liber primus missarum Alphonsi Lobo de Borja (Madrid, 1602), a collection that includes seven motets and six masses by Lobo.