Prepare To Be Swept Away By This Most Profound, Haunting, And Exquisitely Beautiful, Polyphony.

"Missa Papae Marcelli".

Composed by: Palestrina.

Sung by: The Tallis Scholars.

Musical Director: Peter Phillips.

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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.

Source/Photographer: http://xoomer.virgilio.it/senesino/Dei/Palestrina.jpg

This File: 8 February 2009.

User: Sémhur

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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (circa 1525 – 2 February 1594) was an Italian Renaissance composer of Sacred Music and the best-known 16th-Century representative of The Roman School of Musical Composition. He had a lasting influence on the development of Church Music, and his work has often been seen as the culmination of Renaissance Polyphony.

English: Main façade of the Basilica of Saint John Lateran, Rome,

by Alessandro Galilei, 1735. Palestrina was Musical Director at this Basilica.

Italiano: Facciata principale della Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano (Roma),

progettata da Alessandro Galilei (1735).

Français: Façade principale de la basilique Saint-Jean-de-Latran (Rome)

par Alessandro Galilei, 1735.

Photo: 7 September 2006.

Source: Own work.

Author: Jastrow

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