Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da (1525–94) Italian composer who spent most of his life in the service of the Church. Palestrina wrote masses, magnificats, litanies, and
c.600 motets in four to eight or twelve parts. He also composed almost 100 secular madrigals. His works include
Missa Papae Marcelli (1567). See also
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Iconografia Palestriniana: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, immagini e documenti del suo tempo.
Magazine article from: Notes; 9/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...issued by the Accademia Nazionale da Santa Cecilia as part of the...four hundredth anniversary of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina's death, is more of an exhibition...organized by the chronology of Palestrina's life (presented first in...
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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. Missa Dum Complerentur.(Sound Recording Review)
Magazine article from: Notes; 9/1/2003; ; 625 words
; ...world performing the works of Palestrina as beautifully as that of Westminster...remains particularly well suited to Palestrina's lush and cascading vocal...centerpiece of the choir's latest Palestrina program is a gorgeous and yet...
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Palestrina: Nella vita, nelle opere, nel suo tempo.(Review)
Magazine article from: Notes; 12/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Italy: Fondazione Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, 1995. [xv, 945 p...imposing monograph on Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina as man and musician...Karl Gustav Fellerer, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina [Turin: ERI, 1971...
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Der Palestrina-Stil als Satzideal in der Musiktheorie zwischen 1750 und 1900.
Magazine article from: Notes; 9/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...0804-1. DM 155.00.] Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was the first composer to become...even the better ones), but Palestrina nevertheless once fulfilled...somehow became identified with Palestrina, his style, and even his...
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Palestrina und die klassische Vokalpolyphonie als Vorbild kirchenmusikalischer Komponisten im 19. Jahrhundert.
Magazine article from: Notes; 6/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...sounded like the polyphony of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, or at least like something...appropriately, with the "Palestrina legend" as handed down...della vita e delle opere di Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina [Rome: Dalla Societa tipografica...
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The Transcendent Meditation; Pfitzner's Mystical `Palestrina' Gets American Debut at Met
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 7/28/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...and they are apt.) "Palestrina" is, in fact, the supreme...to the rarefied world of "Palestrina." The story is based very...century Italian composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. The Catholic Church, shocked...
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Pfitzner: Palestrina.(Metropolitan Opera House, New York, New York)
Magazine article from: The New Leader; 8/11/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...musical legend in three acts," Palestrina. Rarely seen outside Germany...either by or to the composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, concern his sense of belatedness...namesake. The story opens as Palestrina, sung in good voice albeit...
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`Palestrina's' Mass Appeal
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 7/31/1994; ; 700+ words
; Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525/6-1594) was a historic...operas. But Hans Pfitzner's "Palestrina" (1910-15) is a work of fiction...truth, the opera makes the life of Palestrina seem more interesting than, in all...
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Palestrina and the German Romantic Imagination: Interpreting Historicism in Nineteenth-Century Music.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Notes; 3/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...grew up around the music of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. For critics such as E. T...Friedrich Justus Thibaut, Palestrina came to symbolize the purity...tawdriness of opera. As the Palestrina revival gained adherents...
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Palestrina and Bach: Perfect Notes for the Holidays
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 12/14/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...different but equally beautiful. Palestrina's music, which was on the...unaccompanied singers of the Palestrina Choir and their founder and...for the Christmas season by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c.1525-1594), the purest...
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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina The Italian composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (ca. 1525-1594) was...the composer is known as Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina from the name of his birthplace...
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Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi Da (1526–1594)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
PALESTRINA, GIOVANNI PIERLUIGI DA (1526 – 1594) PALESTRINA, GIOVANNI PIERLUIGI DA (1526 – 1594), Italian composer. Giovanni...
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Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da ( b Palestrina, nr. Rome, c. 1525; d Rome, 1594). It. composer...1537. Studied in Rome c. 1540. Organist and choirmaster, Palestrina, 1544. In 1550 the Bishop became Pope Julius III and in...
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Tomás Luis de Victoria
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...closely followed the detail technique of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, evincing a commanding mastery of Palestrina's dissonance treatment. Personal contact with Palestrina and perhaps even lessons probably explain...
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Johann Joseph Fux
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...the contrapuntal writing of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. (The Gradus is written as a dialogue between Palestrina as master and Fux as pupil...preserves little of the essence of Palestrina's style, about which Fux...
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