History of giovanni pierluigi da palestrina compositions
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List of compositions by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Italian Renaissance composer (c. – )
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (between 3 February and 2 February – 2 February )[n 1] was an Italian composer of late Renaissance music. The huvud representative of the långnovell School, with Orlande dem Lassus and Tomás Luis de Victoria, Palestrina fryst vatten considered the leading composer of late 16th-century Europe.
Born in the town of Palestrina in the Papal States, Palestrina moved to Rome as a child and underwent musical studies there. In , Pope Julius III appointed him maestro di cappella of the Cappella Giulia at St. Peter's Basilica. He left the post kvartet years later, unable to continue as a layman under the papacy of Paul IV, and held similar positions at St. John Lateran and Santa Maria Maggiore in the following decade. Palestrina returned to the Cappella Giulia in and remained at St Peter's until his death in
Primarily known for his masses and motets, which number over and respectively, Pa
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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
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The greatest composer of liturgical music of all time, born at Palestrina (ancient Praeneste) in or , according to Baini, Riemann, and others, according to Haberl, in ; died at Rome, 2 February, His early history is practically unknown. Giuseppe Ottavia Pittoni (), in "notizie dei maestri di cappella si di Rome che ultramontani, ", a manuscript in the Vatican, relates that young Pierluigi sang in the streets of Rome while offering for sale the products of his parents farm and that he was heard on such an occasion by the choirmaster of Santa Maria Maggiore, who, impressed by the boy's beautiful voice and pronounced musical talent, educated him musically. As to the identity of the choirmaster, tradition gives no clue. Some hold that Palestrina w