Cristóbal de Morales

The Renaissance composer Cristóbal de Morales is perhaps the most influential Spanish composer of all times. Almost all of his works are sacred and vocal, although instruments may have had an accompanying role in the performance practice of his time. He wrote a large number of masses, some of which with an extraordinarily high difficulty level, probably written for the professional chapel of the pope. He also composed more than 100 motets, 18 magnificats and least 15 settings of the Lamentations of Jeremiah (of which only one has been saved in his handwriting).
The magnificats alone already give him a special place among the composers of his age, and it is this part of his repertoire that is recorded and performed the most. Stylistically, his music has much in common with the work of other Renaissance composers of the Iberian peninsula.