Pedro de Cristo

Portuguese composer active during the Renaissance period
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroPortuguese composer active during the Renaissance period
PlacesPortugal
isMusician Composer
Work fieldMusic
Gender
Male
DeathCoimbra
The details

Biography

Pedro de Cristo (1545/1550 - 12 December 1618) was a Portuguese composer of the Renaissance. He is one of the most important Portuguese polyphonists of the 16th and 17th centuries.

Life

Pedro de Cristo was born in Coimbra, and in 1571 entered Santa Cruz monastery at Coimbra.

  • Monastery of São Vicente de Fora (Lisbon). He died in Coimbra.

Works

(alphabetical order - incomplete)

  • Ave Maria à 8
  • Ave maris stella
  • Ay mi Dios
  • Beata viscera Mariae
  • Beate martir
  • Dum complerentur dies Pentecostes
  • Es nascido
  • Hodie nobis
  • In manus tuas
  • Magnificat à 8
  • O magnum mysterium
  • Osanna filio David
  • Quaeramus cum pastoribus
  • Regina coeli
  • Salva nos Domine
  • Sanctissimi quinque martires
  • Sanctorum meritis
  • Tristis est anima mea

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