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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (between 3 February 1525 and 2 February 1526 – 2 February 1594) [n 1] 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 (ancient Praeneste; Ancient Greek: Πραίνεστος, Prainestos) is a modern Italian city and comune (municipality) with a population of about 22,000, in Lazio, about 35 kilometres (22 miles) east of Rome.
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, lithograph by Henri-Joseph Hesse. This is a list of compositions by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, sorted by genre.The volume (given in parentheses for motets) refers to the volume of the Breitkopf & Härtel complete edition in which the work can be found.
Palestrina is an opera by the German composer Hans Pfitzner, first performed in 1917.The composer referred to it as a Musikalische Legende (musical legend), and wrote the libretto himself, based on a legend about the Renaissance musician Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, who saves the art of contrapuntal music for the Church in the sixteenth century through his composition of the Missa Papae ...
Sicut cervus is a motet for four voices by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.It sets the beginning of Psalm 42, Psalmus XLI in the Latin version of the Psalterium Romanum rather than the Vulgate Bible.
Palestrina's Stabat Mater appears to have been written for Pope Gregory XIV, who was Pope from 1590 until his death in 1591. Therefore, the work may have been composed during this time– a period which was within the final years of Palestrina's life. Since then, the work was initially guarded closely by the choir for which it was written.
The Palestrina Mosaic or Nile mosaic of Palestrina is an ancient floor mosaic depicting the Nile in its passage from the Blue Nile to the Mediterranean. The mosaic was part of a Classical sanctuary-grotto in Palestrina , a town east of Ancient Rome , in central Italy.
Palestrina's mass that was analyzed is his first mass based on the l'homme armé melody. This mass was written for five voices and was a regular cantus-firmus mass as many of the l’homme armé masses. It is said that Palestrina composed it during the 1560s which is within his third volume of masses, published in 1570.