Much of the artistic achievement of the Portuguese Renaissance was destroyed by the great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755, which killed 30,000 people. Among the losses where most of the works of the composer Estêvão Lopes Morago (c.1575 — after 1630). But some of his work that survives indicates that he was very good. I have only five short pieces, recorded by the Gulbenkian Foundation choir on their Portugaliae Musica series. All are polyphonic pieces, four of them for four voices, one for a double choir of 3 and 4 parts each. The most beautiful is the Jesu redemptor, which is a litany for the dead, praying for Christ to accept the soul of the departed, and perhaps sung during the cortège, between the house of the deceased and the church. Morago was actually a Spaniard, but apparently spent most of his life in Portugal as choir-master of the Cathedral of Viseu.