Edition of the motet “O magnum mysterium”, for six voices, by the Spanish composer Francisco Garro (c.1556-c.1623). Garro was active in Lisbon as master of the Portuguese Royal Chapel from 1592 to 1623, and this motet was published in one of his 1609 collection of masses, printed in Lisbon at the Pedro Craesbeeck workshop.

António de Oliveira was a Portuguese composer active in the last decades of the sixteenth century. He was a pupil of Manuel Mendes at Évora and made his musical career in the church of São Julião in Lisbon moving afterwards to Rome, where he died. Like Manuel Mendes, his musical production is scarce. This brief post aims to summarize what is kno…[Read more]