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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Born: 3rd February 1525, Palestrina

Died: 2nd February 1594, Rome

Nationality: Italian

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was an Italian Renaissance composer of sacred music and the best-known 16th-century representative of the Roman School of musical composition. He had a long-lasting influence on the development of church and secular music in Europe, especially on the development of counterpoint, and his work is considered the culmination of Renaissance polyphony.

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Recording of the Week, New Palestrina from Graham Ross and the choir of Clare College

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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