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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.
Missa Papae Marcelli, or Pope Marcellus Mass, is a mass sine nomine by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.It is his best-known mass, [1] [2] and is regarded as an archetypal example of the complex polyphony championed by Palestrina.
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.
Sicut Cervus remains one of Palestrina's most popular and frequently performed works and one of the rare motets that retained its popularity into the modern era. [7] The motet has become the "unofficial anthem" of St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe) , where it is sung every Wednesday by students and faculty and is the part of the first-year ...
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: c. 1525 – 1594: Italian [7] Baldassare Donato: 1525/1530 – 1603: Italian Girolamo Cavazzoni: c. 1525 – after 1577: Italian Claude Gervaise: 1525 – 1583: French John Blitheman: c. 1525 – 1591: English Richard Edwardes: 1525 – 1566: English Rodrigo de Ceballos: c. 1525 – 1581: Spanish Antonino ...
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c. 1525 – 1594) Baldassare Donato (1525/1530 – 1603) ... Classical era. Giovanni Battista Sammartini (c. 1700 – 1775)
By far the most famous composer of the Roman School is Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, whose name has been associated for four hundred years with smooth, clear, polyphonic perfection. However, there were other composers working in Rome, and in a variety of styles and forms.
The Missa Brevis is a mass written by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina first published in 1570 in Palestrina's Third Book of Masses and reprinted several times since. [1] Its title may be misleading, as a missa brevis commonly refers to a short mass, which this is not. It is among the most performed of Palestrina's polyphonic repertoire.