Estacio de la Serna
1570 - 1616
Spain / Peru
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E. de la Serna
Estacio de la Serna (1570 - 1616), a Peruvian composer and organist; born in Seville, Spain.
Source:The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians
Officium defunctorum
Period:Late Renaissance
Composed in:1612
Musical form:officium
Text/libretto:Latin
This Officium defunctorum was composed in 1612 in memory of Queen Margaret of Spain and was performed in the Lima cathedral on the evening of 03/11/1612, in a service that lasted five hours. This mass (as all of his other works with the exception of two tientos for organ) is lost.
Source:The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians
Contributor:Tassos Dimitriadis