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Name: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Birth Date: December 27, 1525
Death Date: February 2, 1594
Place of Birth: Palestrina, Italy
Place of Death: Rome, Italy
Nationality: Italian
Gender: Male
Occupations: composer

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The Italian composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (ca. 1525-1594) was one of the greatest masters of Renaissance music and the foremost composer of the Roman school. Born Giovanni Pierluigi, the composer is known as Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina...


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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (between 3 February 1525 and 2 February 1526[1] - 2 February, 1594) was an Italian composer of the Renaissance. He was the most famous sixteenth-century representative of the Roman School of musical composition....


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Iconografia Palestriniana: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, immagini e documenti del suo tempo. (book reviews)
09/01/1996: 723 words, approx. 2 pages
By Lino Bianchi and Giancarlo Rostirolla, with Annalisa Bini and Fabio Failla. (L'arte armonica, Serie 4: Iconografia e Cataloghi, 1.) Lucca: Libreria Musicale Italiana, 1994. [375 p. ISBN 88-7096-100-1. Lire 150,000.] Picture books about composers often consist of essays about life and...
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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. Missa Dum Complerentur.(Sound Recording Review)
09/01/2003: 245 words, approx. 1 pages
Veni Sancte Spiritus. Other Music for Whitsuntide. Westminster Cathedral Choir/Martin Baker. Hyperion CDA67353, 2003. Apart from the Tallis Scholars--which is, of course, a very different sort of ensemble--there is probably no choir in the world performing the works of Palestrina as beautifully...
 


 

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