Both Guerrero's portrait and biography were published at the time of his death, he was such an honered Spanish composer. His teacher was Morales and comparisons were drawn between Guerrero's music and that of both Morales and Victorio. With the composition of eighteen masses and over one hundred and fifty pieces -- liturgical and motets -- Guerrero superceeded the production of his contemporaries. His works were so anticipatory of the harmonies to come that in 1974 his "Magnificat secundi toni" was discovered, performed and ascribed to an unknown composer of the eighteenth century. Guerrero's Marian motets were the paradigmatic model of such liturgical pieces with surprisingly intense pathos within the narrow strictures of convention. The musical life of Guerrero took his compositions to Seville, Venice, Paris and Louvain. He was afforded the opportunity of travelling to Jaffa, Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Damascus as well as Seville, Rome and Marseilles. The excellent character of his music was so enduring and endearing that it was performed in Spain and Latin America for more than two centuries after his death. ~ Keith Johnson, Rovi