Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Born: 3rd February 1525, Palestrina
Died: 2nd February 1594, Rome
Nationality: Italian
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was an Italian composer of late Renaissance music. The central representative of the Roman School, with Orlande de Lassus and Tomás Luis de Victoria, Palestrina is considered the leading composer of late 16th-century Europe. Palestrina was one of the few Renaissance composers never entirely forgotten, but it was the so-called "Palestrinian style" of counterpoint—especially as codified by Johann Joseph Fux—rather than his individual compositions that exerted the greatest influence.
Born in the town of Palestrina in the Papal States, Palestrina moved to Rome as a child and underwent musical studies there. In 1551, Pope Julius III appointed him maestro di cappella of the Cappella Giulia at St.
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New Palestrina from Graham Ross and the choir of Clare College
10th Jan 2025
Graham Ross and his singers perform five previously unrecorded works for the 500th anniversary of Palestrina's birth, interspersed with settings by some of his English contemporaries.
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- Ad te Levavi Oculos Meos (8)
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- Io son ferito ahi lasso (8)
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- Tu es Petrus a 6 (11)
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- Vestiva i colli (21)
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