Renaissance Europe 1300-1600: Music - Research Article from Arts and Humanities Through the Eras

This encyclopedia article consists of approximately 99 pages of information about Renaissance Europe 1300-1600.

Renaissance Europe 1300-1600: Music - Research Article from Arts and Humanities Through the Eras

This encyclopedia article consists of approximately 99 pages of information about Renaissance Europe 1300-1600.
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1525–1594

Composer
Musician

Training and Life.

The composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was born in the small village of Palestrina outside Rome and by the 1530s he was serving as a choirboy in the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. By 1551 he had risen to the rank of the "master of the choirboys" and somewhat later Pope Julius III appointed him a member of the Capella Giulia at St. Peter's. Unlike the Sistine Chapel, the Capella Giulia's ranks of choristers were drawn from Italians and not from the numerous professional Flemish musicians who flourished in Italy at the time. Julius III had hired Palestrina without the customary vote of the other members of the choir, and his appointment remained controversial. Soon after his taking on the duties of a papal chorister, Palestrina released his first printed book of masses. This was the...

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