Musical celebrations of the feast of St Cecilia were common in Europe since the fifteenth century and throughout the sixteenth century. Of the many composers who wrote music for this festivity we find four mid-sixteenth-century compositions by French composers. Two motets Cantantibus orgnis and Cecilia virgo gloriosa – by Pierre Certon which…[Read more]

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.