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Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)

According to The New Penguin Dictionary of Music, Tomás Luis De Victoria was a Spanish composer (also poet) who worked in Rome for nearly 20 years (hence Vittoria, the sometimes-encountered Italian form of his name). Then took up a church choirmaster's post in Madrid and died there. Composed only church music, including settings of all the hymns of the Roman Catholic liturgical year; 19 masses, among them a Requiem Mass for the Spanish Dowager Empress; motets. Associated in Rome with Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, to whose style his own is related.
Websites:
Victoria, Tomás Luis de (1548 - 1611) , biography and works by naxos.com.
CCD: de Victoria, Tomás Luis (appr. 1548-1611) , biography etc.
Books:
[§] Tomas Luis de Victoria : A Guide to Research (Composer Resource Manuals) by Eugene Cramer

Recorder Music CDs:
 La Spagna: Music at the Spanish Court by Loeki Stardust Quartet Amsterdam