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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina



Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da (c.1525–94), Italian Renaissance composer of unaccompanied choral church music. He wrote over 100 masses and is perhaps best known for his Missa Papae Marcelli. He was organist and choirmaster in several Roman churches.



See also: Renaissance.

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