Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

  • male, deceased (1594)
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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (between 3 February 1525 and 2 February 1526 - 2 February, 1594) was an Italian composer of the Renaissance. He was the most famous sixteenth-century representative of the Roman School of musical composition. Palestrina had a vast influence on the development of Roman Catholic church music, and his work can be seen as a summation of Renaissance polyphony. Wikipedia
Born:
February 3, 1525
Died:
February 2, 1594
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