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Costanzo Festa
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Costanzo Festa
Costanzo Festa , c.1490-1545, Italian composer. An early madrigalist, Festa combined Flemish and Italian influences in his works and in turn influenced Palestrina. His Te Deum (1516) is still sung by the pontifical choir at the election of a new pope.
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Festa, Costanzo
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Festa, Costanzo ( b c. 1490; d Rome, 1545). It. composer. Choirmaster at Vatican. Comp. masses, motets, and other church mus., his Te Deum still being sung at election of new Pope. Also wrote madrigals, one known in Eng. as Down in a Flowery Vale .
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