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New page: Giovanni Pierluigi da '''Palestrina''' (c.1525-1594), Italian composer, is considered, with Lassus and Byrd the greatest composer of his time of unaccompanied ...
Giovanni Pierluigi da '''Palestrina''' (c.1525-1594), [[Italian]] [[composer]], is considered, with [[Lassus]] and [[William Byrd|Byrd]] the greatest composer of his time of unaccompanied choral music and one of the greatest [[Renaissance period (music)|Renaissance]] composers generally.
He sang in the local cathedral choir from about 12 and became organist and choirmaster there when 18. He was fortunate when his bishop became [[Pope]] and he moved to the [[Vatican]] where he was to hold senior musical positions and make a name for himself throughout [[Europe]] with works, (mostly sacred, but he has a place in the development of the [[madrigal]]) that are recognised as being at the pinnacle of the unaccompanied [[polyphony|polyphonic]] style. After him, we see the emergence of accompanied [[mass (music)|masses]] and [[passion (music)|Passions]] and the rise of the oratorio and cantata that would peak with [[J. S. Bach]] and [[Handel]].
He was a devout and devoted child of the [[Counter-Reformation]]. He was the first Italian to be allowed to dedicate a book of masses to the Pope (an honour normally given to the composers of the''[[Flanders]] school'') and what is considered his greatest mass, “Missa Papae Marcellus,” is seen as an attempt to bring the mass into line with the guiding principles of the then meeting [[Council of Trent]].
His music is much recorded and frequently performed in Christian places of worship throughout the world.
[[Category: Composers]]
{{DEFAULTSORT: Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da}}
He sang in the local cathedral choir from about 12 and became organist and choirmaster there when 18. He was fortunate when his bishop became [[Pope]] and he moved to the [[Vatican]] where he was to hold senior musical positions and make a name for himself throughout [[Europe]] with works, (mostly sacred, but he has a place in the development of the [[madrigal]]) that are recognised as being at the pinnacle of the unaccompanied [[polyphony|polyphonic]] style. After him, we see the emergence of accompanied [[mass (music)|masses]] and [[passion (music)|Passions]] and the rise of the oratorio and cantata that would peak with [[J. S. Bach]] and [[Handel]].
He was a devout and devoted child of the [[Counter-Reformation]]. He was the first Italian to be allowed to dedicate a book of masses to the Pope (an honour normally given to the composers of the''[[Flanders]] school'') and what is considered his greatest mass, “Missa Papae Marcellus,” is seen as an attempt to bring the mass into line with the guiding principles of the then meeting [[Council of Trent]].
His music is much recorded and frequently performed in Christian places of worship throughout the world.
[[Category: Composers]]
{{DEFAULTSORT: Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da}}