Francisco Guerrero

Short bio Francisco Guerrero

Birthday: 1528 in Seville, Spain

Died: 1599 in Seville, Spain

Genre: Classical

Period: Renaissance

Full biography Francisco Guerrero

Francisco Guerrero was a Spanish Catholic priest and composer of the Renaissance ), born on October 4 (possibly) in 1528 in Seville, Spain. He is considered one of the leading Spanish composers of the 16th century , alongside Toms Luis de Victoria. Guerrero began his musical studies as a choirboy in the cathedral in Seville and later became the chapelmaster at the same cathedral.

Guerrero is known for his sacred vocal music, including motets, masses, and hymns, which are characterized by their polyphonic texture and intricate harmonies. He published over 150 works during his lifetime, and many of these pieces were widely circulated and performed throughout Europe. He drew inspiration from various sources, including popular Spanish melodies and other composers of the time such as Palestrina.

In addition to his compositions, Guerrero was also known for his journey to the Holy Land, which he wrote about in his best-selling book "Journey to Jerusalem". He visited Rome, Venice, and the Holy Land in 1588, and his experiences on this journey influenced his later works.

Overall, Francisco Guerrero was a highly influential composer of the Renaissance, known for his elaborate choral works and his travels to the Holy Land. He died on November 8, 1599, in Seville, his birthplace.

Compositions featuring Francisco Guerrero

#	Name	Duration	Genre	Year
1	Hyades, for bass flute, trombone, double bass & electro-acoustics	12:17 min	Chamber Music	1994
2	Delta cephei, for 2 clarinets, violin, viola & cello	9:36 min	Chamber Music	1992
3	Vâda, for 2 sopranos, flute, oboe, bass clarinet, 2 percussionists & string quartet	5:27 min	Vocal Music	1982
4	Ars Combinatoria, for piccolo, oboe, contrabassoon, horn, trumpet & tenor-bass trombone	6:48 min	Chamber Music	1979
5	Concierto de cámara, for flute, bass clarinet & string quartet	6:49 min	Chamber Music	1977
6	Anemos C, for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns & 2 percussionists	8:27 min	Chamber Music	1976
7	Maria Magdalene, motet for 6 voices	7:45 min	Vocal Music	1602
8	Acaba de matarme, for voices (Canciones y villanescas espirituales)	3:09 min	Vocal Music	1589
9	Al resplandor de una estrella, for voices (Canciones y villanescas espirituales)	4:10 min	Vocal Music	1589
10	Apuestan zagales dos, for voices (Canciones y villanescas espirituales)	3:06 min	Vocal Music	1589
11	Baxóme mi descuydo, for voices (from Canciones y Villanescas espirituales)	2:41 min	Vocal Music	1589
12	Claros y hermosos ojos, for voices (Canciones y villanescas espirituales)	3:09 min	Vocal Music	1589
13	De amores del Señor, for voices (from Canciones y Villanescas espirituales)	3:00 min	Vocal Music	1589
14	De dónde vienes, Pascual?, for voices (Canciones y villanescas espirituales)	1:57 min	Vocal Music	1589
15	Es menester que se açierte, for voices (from Canciones y Villanescas espirituales)	1:58 min	Vocal Music	1589
16	Hombres Victoria, Victoria, for voices (Canciones y villanescas espirituales)	2:31 min	Vocal Music	1589
17	Juicios sobre una estrella, for voices (Canciones y villanescas espirituales)	3:34 min	Vocal Music	1589
18	La tierra se está gozando, for voices (Canciones y villanescas espirituales)	2:52 min	Vocal Music	1589
19	Mi ofensa's grande, for voices (Canciones y villanescas espirituales)	4:28 min	Vocal Music	1589
20	O qué mesa u qué manjar!, for voices (Canciones y villanescas espirituales)	2:22 min	Vocal Music	1589
21	O, Virgen, quando's miro, for voices (Canciones y villanescas espirituales)	2:26 min	Vocal Music	1589
22	Pues la guía d'una estrella, for voices (from Canciones y Villanescas espirituales)	3:13 min	Vocal Music	1589
23	Quando's miro mi Dios, for voices (Canciones y villanescas espirituales)	4:34 min	Vocal Music	1589
24	Qué buen años es el del çielo!, for voices (from Canciones y Villanescas espirituales)	2:03 min	Vocal Music	1589
25	Qué se puede desear? for voices (from Canciones y Villanescas espirituales)	2:06 min	Vocal Music	1589
26	Qué te daré, Señor? for voices (from Canciones y Villanescas espirituales)	4:17 min	Vocal Music	1589
27	Sabes lo que heziste?, for voices (Canciones y villanescas espirituales)	5:33 min	Vocal Music	1589
28	Sancta et immaculata, motet for 4 voices	3:44 min	Choral	1589
29	Si tus penas no pruevo, for voices (from Canciones y Villanescas espirituales)	2:48 min	Vocal Music	1589
30	Vamos al portal, for voices (from Canciones y Villanescas espirituales)	4:33 min	Vocal Music	1589
31	Zagales sin seso vengo, for voices (Canciones y villanescas espirituales)	2:15 min	Vocal Music	1589
32	Pastores loquebantur, motet for 6 voices	4:16 min	Choral	1585
33	Missa pro defunctis (ii), for 4 voices	33:28 min	Choral	1582
34	Requiem	38:16 min	Choral	1582
35	O Doctor optime, motet for 6 voices	3:40 min	Choral	1570
36	Rorate caeli	3:05 min	Miscellaneous (Classical)	1570
37	Ave Virgo Sanctissima, motet for 5 voices	4:05 min	Choral	1566
38	Missa "Dormendo un Giorno" for 4 voices	4:07 min	Choral	1566
39	Magnificat secundi toni	8:00 min	Choral	1563
40	Sacrae Cantiones, motets		Choral	1555
41	A Pelayo	3:09 min	Miscellaneous (Classical)	-
42	A un niño llorando	3:44 min	Vocal Music	-
43	Absolve me, tract	2:58 min	Vocal Music	-
44	Adiós mi amor, for ensemble	1:32 min	Orchestral	-
45	Alma Redemptoris Mater, for 4 voices	3:54 min	Choral	-
46	Antes que comáis a Dios, motet/canción	2:32 min	Vocal Music	-
47	Ave Maria, motet for 4 voices	3:49 min	Choral	-
48	Ave Maria, motet for 8 voices	3:46 min	Choral	-
49	Ave maris stella, motet	8:21 min	Choral	-
50	Ave Regina coelorum, motet	3:15 min	Vocal Music	-
51	Baxásteme, Señora	2:59 min	Vocal Music	-
52	Beata Dei Genitrix, Maria, for 6 voices	5:52 min	Choral	-
53	Beatus Achacius, motet	7:21 min	Choral	-
54	Beatus es et bene tibi, for 4 voices	2:57 min	Choral	-
55	Beatus vir (from Liber verperarum)	3:34 min	Choral	-
56	Canite tuba in Sion, motet	4:04 min	Choral	-
57	Caro mea, motet for 4 voices	2:23 min	Choral	-
58	Celsi confessoris, for chorus	5:40 min	Choral	-
59	Christe potens rerum, motet for 5 voices	2:37 min	Vocal Music	-
60	Christe redemptor omnium (from Liber verperarum)	6:49 min	Choral	-
61	Clamabat autem mulier, motet	5:07 min	Choral	-
62	Claros y frescos ríos, song for 3 voices (attributed)	2:40 min	Vocal Music	-
63	Conditor alme siderum, motet	4:45 min	Choral	-
64	Confitebor tibi, Domine (from Liber verperarum)	5:07 min	Choral	-
65	Decidme Fuente Clara, for chorus	3:35 min	Choral	-
66	Deposuit potentes, motet	1:16 min	Choral	-
67	Dexó la venda, el arco	2:02 min	Miscellaneous (Classical)	-
68	Dezidme, fuente clara	3:06 min	Vocal Music	-
69	Dicebat Iesus turbis, motet for 4 voices	4:56 min	Choral	-
70	Dixit Dominus (from Liber verperarum)	3:49 min	Choral	-
71	Ductus est Jesus, for 5 voices	4:16 min	Choral	-
72	Dulcissima Maria, motet	4:11 min	Vocal Music	-
73	Dum aurora finem daret, motet	4:55 min	Choral	-
74	Dum esset rex, madrigal for 5 voices	3:00 min	Choral	-
75	Duo Seraphim, motet for 12 voices	3:51 min	Choral	-
76	Ego flos campi, for 8 voices	3:23 min	Vocal Music	-
77	En tanto que de rosa y açuçena	3:12 min	Vocal Music	-
78	Estraña muestra d'amar	2:28 min	Choral	-
79	Fresco y claro arroyuelo	2:26 min	Vocal Music	-
80	Gabriel Archangelus, motet for 4 voices	4:34 min	Choral	-
81	Gaude Barbara, motet for 6 voices	4:54 min	Choral	-
82	Graduale et Alleluia: Assumpta est Maria		Choral	-
83	Hei mihi, Domine, motet for 6 voices	4:07 min	Choral	-
84	Hoy, José, se os da en el Suelo	1:35 min	Miscellaneous (Classical)	-
85	Huyd, huyd, o çiegos amadores	2:03 min	Miscellaneous (Classical)	-
86	In illo tempore assumpsit Iesus duodecim discipulos, motet for 4 voices	2:45 min	Choral	-
87	La gracia y los ojos bellos	2:08 min	Choral	-
88	La Luz de Vuestros Ojos	2:20 min	Miscellaneous (Classical)	-
89	Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae	9:09 min	Choral	-
90	Lauda mater ecclesia, for 4 voices	3:17 min	Choral	-
91	Laudate Dominum (from Liber verperarum)	2:12 min	Choral	-
92	Los reyes siguen la estrella	2:31 min	Vocal Music	-
93	Magnificat	11:34 min	Choral	-
94	Magnificat (from Liber verperarum)	8:10 min	Choral	-
95	Magnificat Octavi toni	7:35 min		-
96	Magnificat quarti toni	8:03 min	Choral	-
97	Magnificat septimi toni, for 4 voices	7:41 min	Choral	-
98	Mi fé, vengo de Belén	2:20 min	Miscellaneous (Classical)	-
99	Missa Congratulamini mihi, for 5 voices	32:05 min	Choral	-
100	Missa de la batalla escoutez	26:21 min	Choral	-
101	Missa Ecce sacerdos magnus, for 5 voices	27:50 min	Choral	-
102	Missa Puer qui natus est nobis (Christmas Mass)		Choral	-
103	Missa Sancta et immaculata, for 5 voices	30:28 min	Choral	-
104	Missa Simile est regnum coelorum	24:41 min	Choral	-
105	Missa Super flumina Babylonis, for chorus	3:55 min	Choral	-
106	Missa Surge propera, for 6 voices	27:49 min	Vocal Music	-
107	Nino Dios d'amor herido	2:22 min	Miscellaneous (Classical)	-
108	No me podré quexar, chanson for 5 voices	1:23 min	Vocal Music	-
109	O Altitudo Divitiarum, motet for 8 voices	3:21 min	Choral	-
110	O Celestial Medicina, motet	2:01 min	Vocal Music	-
111	O crux benedicta, motet	2:58 min	Choral	-
112	O Crux splendidior, motet for 5 voices	3:51 min	Choral	-
113	O Domine Iesu Christe, for 4 voices	3:56 min	Choral	-
114	O dulce y gran contento	2:30 min	Choral	-
115	O grandes paces! (O Great News of Peace!), villancico	4:38 min	Choral	-
116	O lux beata Trinitas, for 4 voices	3:28 min	Choral	-
117	O Maria, motet for 4 voices	2:03 min	Vocal Music	-
118	O quam super terram, motet for 5 voices	2:23 min	Vocal Music	-
119	O Sacrum Convivium, motet for 5 voices	4:13 min	Choral	-
120	O venturoso dia	2:50 min	Miscellaneous (Classical)	-
121	O Virgen	1:07 min	Miscellaneous (Classical)	-
122	Ofrenda super flumina Babylonis, for chorus	1:42 min	Choral	-
123	Ojos claros y serenos	2:21 min	Choral	-
124	Optimam Pertem Elegit	0:55 min	Miscellaneous (Classical)	-
125	Opus 1 Manual	15:31 min	Miscellaneous (Classical)	-
126	Oy Joseph	1:51 min	Miscellaneous (Classical)	-
127	Oyd, Oyd Una Cosa		Miscellaneous (Classical)	-
128	Pan divino graçioso, villancico for 4 voices	2:59 min	Choral	-
129	Pange lingua gloriosi, hymn for 4 voices	7:02 min	Choral	-
130	Pastor, quien Madre Virgen à mirado	1:48 min	Choral	-
131	Pastores si nos quereis	1:55 min	Vocal Music	-
132	Pater Noster, motet for 8 voices	4:33 min	Choral	-
133	Peccantem me quotidie, for 5 voices	5:44 min	Choral	-
134	Petre ego pro te rogavi, motet	3:57 min	Choral	-
135	Pluguiera a Dios	4:17 min	Choral	-
136	Post dies octo, motet for 5 voices	5:22 min	Choral	-
137	Prado verde y florido	3:50 min	Miscellaneous (Classical)	-
138	Quae est ista formosa?, motet for 4 voices	5:41 min	Choral	-
139	Quasi cedrus, motet	4:51 min	Vocal Music	-
140	Quomodo cantabimus canticum Domini?, for chorus	4:28 min	Choral	-
141	Regina caeli, motet for 4 voices	2:35 min	Choral	-
142	Regina coeli, motet for 8 voices	4:23 min	Choral	-
143	Requiem aeternam, gradual	4:44 min	Vocal Music	-
144	Salve Regina, motet for 4 voices	7:40 min	Vocal Music	-
145	Sancta Maria sucurre miseris, motet for 4 voices	4:25 min	Choral	-
146	Sanctissima Maria	2:24 min	Choral	-
147	Si el mirar, for ensemble	1:32 min	Orchestral	-
148	Si la noche haze escura, villancico	3:45 min	Choral	-
149	Simile est Regnum Caelorum, motet	3:47 min	Choral	-
150	Soliloquios amorosos de un alma a Dios: Si tus penas	6:30 min	Miscellaneous (Classical)	-
151	Surge Propera Amica Mea	6:05 min	Miscellaneous (Classical)	-
152	Tan largo a sido	2:18 min	Choral	-
153	Todo quanto pudo dar	2:55 min	Vocal Music	-
154	Todos aman, cançión for 5 voices	1:25 min	Vocal Music	-
155	Tota pulchra es Maria, motet	5:48 min	Choral	-
156	Trahe me post te, Virgo Maria, motet for 5 voices	4:24 min	Choral	-
157	Tu dorado cabello	3:05 min	Choral	-
158	Usquequo, Domine	5:23 min	Vocal Music	-
159	Ut queant laxis, for chorus	6:14 min	Choral	-
160	Vana sperança, villanesca	3:47 min	Vocal Music	-
161	Veni, Domine, et noli tardare, motet for 5 voices	4:07 min	Choral	-
162	Vexilla Regis, for 4 voices	9:20 min	Choral	-
163	Virgen Sancta	4:35 min	Miscellaneous (Classical)	-
164	Virgines prudentes	3:44 min	Choral	-
165	Virgo prudentissima, motet	3:14 min	Choral	-

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