Alonso Lobo

2025-09-24T20:24:17Z

2A0C:5A80:7C01:FC00:A9BA:17A5:EF3B:7D7: /* Biography */

{{Short description|Spanish composer}}
[[File:Alonso Lobo.webp|thumb|Alonso Lobo]]
'''Alonso Lobo''' (February 25, 1555 (baptised) – April 5, 1617) was a Spanish composer of the late [[Renaissance music|Renaissance]]. Although not as famous as [[Tomás Luis de Victoria]], he was highly regarded at the time, and Victoria himself considered him to be his equal.

==Biography==

Lobo was born in [[Osuna]], and after being a choirboy at the cathedral in [[Seville]], he received a degree at the [[University of Osuna]], and took a position as a canon at Osuna´s [[Colegiata de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción|collegiate church]] sometime before 1591. In that year, the Seville Cathedral appointed him as assistant to [[Francisco Guerrero (composer)|Francisco Guerrero]], and he later became ''maestro de capilla'' during Guerrero's leave of absence. In 1593, [[Cathedral of Toledo|Toledo Cathedral]] hired him as ''maestro de capilla''; he remained there until 1604, when he returned to Seville, where he died.
[[File:Osuna - Universidad y Colegiata.jpg|thumb|The University and Collegiate Church of Osuna]]

Lobo's music combines the smooth [[counterpoint|contrapuntal]] technique of [[Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina|Palestrina]] with the sombre intensity of Victoria. Some of his music also uses [[polychoral]] techniques, which were common in [[Italy]] around 1600, though Lobo never used more than two choirs (contemporary choral music of the [[Venetian School (music)|Venetian school]] often used many more — the [[Giovanni Gabrieli|Gabrieli]]s often wrote for as many choirs as there were choir-lofts at [[St Mark's Basilica]]). Lobo was influential far beyond the borders of his native Spain: in [[Portugal]], and as far away as [[Mexico]], for the next hundred years or more he was considered to be one of the finest Spanish composers.
[[File:Alobo1.jpg|thumb|Alonso Lobo's ''"Credo romano"'', [[El Escorial]].]]
His works include [[mass (music)|mass]]es and [[motet]]s, three [[Passion (music)|Passion]] settings, [[Lamentations (music)|Lamentation]]s, psalms and hymns, as well as a [[Psalm 51|Miserere]] for 12 voices (which has since become lost). His best-known work, ''Versa est in luctum'', was written on the death of [[Philip II of Spain|Philip II]] in 1598. No secular or instrumental music by Lobo is known to survive today.

==Publications==

* 1602, Madrid, ''Liber primus missarum''

==References==

* Owen Rees: "Lobo, Alonso" in ''The Oxford Companion to Music'', ed. Alison Latham. Oxford University Press, 2003. {{ISBN|0-19-866212-2}}
* [[Gustave Reese]], ''Music in the Renaissance''. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1954. {{ISBN|0-393-09530-4}}
* Article "Alonso Lobo" in ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', ed. Stanley Sadie. 20 vol. London, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1980. {{ISBN|1-56159-174-2}}

==Recordings==
* ''Lamentations'', [[Westminster Cathedral Choir School|Choir of Westminster Cathedral]] directed by [[Martin Baker (organist)|Martin Baker]] on Hyperion CDA68106
* ''Missa Simile est regnum caelorum, Missa O rex gloriae and Lamentations'', [[Choir of King's College London]] directed by [[David Trendell]] on Sanctuary Gaudeamus, 2002
* ''Vivo ego, dicit Dominus'' recorded by Musicaficta Ensemble, directed by Andrea Angelini
* ''Versa est in luctum'' & ''Lamentationes Ieremiae Prophetae'', on the disc ''Santiago a Cappella'', The [[Monteverdi Choir]], directed by [[John Eliot Gardiner]] on Universal Classics
* ''Versa est in luctum'' & ''Lamentations'' & ''Libera Me'', on the disc ''The Golden Age, Siglo de oro'', released 2008 by [[The King's Singers]] on [[Signum Records]]
* ''Versa est in luctum'' & ''Libera me, Domine'', on the disc ''Mortuus est Philippus Rex'', Choir of Westminster Cathedral, London, directed by [[James O'Donnell (organist)|James O'Donnell]] (Hyperion CDA67046)
*''Versa est in luctum'', on the disc ''Morales - Requiem, music for Philip II'', Gabrieli Consort, directed by Paul McCreesh (ARCHIV produktion, 457 597-2)
* ''Versa est in luctum'', with the Victoria Requiem, [[The Tallis Scholars]], directed by [[Peter Phillips (conductor)|Peter Phillips]] ([[Gimell Records]], CDGIM 012)
* ''Missa Maria Magdalene'', with the motet Maria Magdalene by Guerrero, [[The Tallis Scholars]], directed by Peter Phillips (Gimell, CDGIM 031)
* ''Versa est in luctum'', on the disc ''Sing Joyfully'', The Hogan Ensemble, directed by Simon Hogan on Convivium Records, 2010.

==External links==
* {{ChoralWiki}}
* {{youTube|id=DWyG4wqU0Tw|title=Lobo's ''Versa est in luctum'' (performed by Tenebrae, directed by Nigel Short)}}

{{Renaissance music}}
{{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lobo, Alonso}}
[[Category:1555 births]]
[[Category:1617 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Osuna]]
[[Category:Spanish Renaissance composers]]
[[Category:Spanish male classical composers]]

Vero - Wikipedia - User contributions [en]

Alonso Lobo