Giovanni Animuccia was an Italian musical composer of the Renaissance. He was one of the best-known contemporaries of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina in the Roman School of composers, and was influential in the development of the polyphonic "laude" at Rome. Animuccia was born at Florence. At the request of St. Filippo Neri he composed a number of "Laudi", or hymns of praise, to be sung after sermon time, … Wikipedia
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