A Biography of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Composer of Liturgical Music (1588 words, 2 pages)
Giovanni Pierluigi da PalestrinaThe greatest composer of liturgical music of all time, born at Palestrina (ancient Praeneste) in 1514 or 1515, according to Baini, Riemann, and others, according to Haberl, in 1526 died at Rome, 2 February, 1594. His early history is practically unknown. Giusseppi Ottavia Pittoni (1657-1743), in "notizie ...
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