Palestrina (ancient Praeneste; Ancient Greek: Πραίνεστος, Prainestos) is a modern Italian city and comune (municipality) with a population of about 22...
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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (between 3 February 1525 and 2 February 1526 – 2 February 1594) was an Italian composer of late Renaissance music. The...
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Palestrina is a city in Lazio, Italy. Palestrina may also refer to: 4850 Palestrina, a minor planet Palestrina (opera), a 1917 opera by Hans Pfitzner Palestrina...
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The Palestrina Mosaic or Nile mosaic of Palestrina is a an ancient floor mosaic depicting the Nile in its passage from the Blue Nile to the Mediterranean...
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Palestrina is an opera by the German composer Hans Pfitzner, first performed in 1917. The composer referred to it as a Musikalische Legende (musical legend)...
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Palestrina Cathedral (Italian: Duomo di Palestrina; Cattedrale di Sant'Agapito martire) is a Roman Catholic cathedral located in Palestrina, in the region...
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Abundius of Palestrina is a saint of the Christian church. His feast day is celebrated on October 29 in Palestrina. Holweck, F. G., A Biographical Dictionary...
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The Palestrina Pietà is a marble sculpture of the Italian Renaissance, dating from c. 1555 and now in the Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence. It was formerly...
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16-year-old Agapitus, who may have been a member of the noble Anicia family of Palestrina, was condemned to death, under the prefect Antiochus and the Emperor Aurelian...
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This is a list of compositions by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, sorted by genre. The volume (given in parentheses for motets) refers to the volume...
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Sportiva Palestrina 1919 or simply Palestrina starts in 1919 when it was founded. It is an Italian association football club, based in Palestrina, Lazio...
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Sicut cervus is a motet for four voices by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. It sets the beginning of Psalm 42, Psalmus XLI in the Latin version of the...
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Brevis is a mass written by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina first published in 1570 in Palestrina's Third Book of Masses and reprinted several times since...
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Hubert of Palestrina was an Italian papal legate and Cardinal. He was created bishop of Palestrina in 1068. He was legate, with Gerald of Ostia, to the...
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Suburbicarian Diocese of Palestrina (Latin: Diocesis Praenestina) is a Latin suburbicarian diocese centered on the comune of Palestrina in Italy. The current...
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Missa Papae Marcelli (redirect from Missa Papae Marcelli (Palestrina))
Pierluigi da Palestrina. It is his best-known mass, and is regarded as an archetypal example of the complex polyphony championed by Palestrina. It was sung...
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Salvatore de Pilestrina (redirect from Salvatore de Palestrina)
Salvatore de Pilestrina (fl. 1502–1533), also known as Salvat de Pilestrina, was a mapmaker in Mallorca in the early 16th century. Scholars suggest he...
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Porto-Santa Rufina the Diocese of Frascati (Tusculum) the Diocese of Palestrina the Diocese of Albano the Diocese of Sabina-Poggio Mirteto The see of...
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most skilled members of the Roman School in the first generation after Palestrina. Soriano was born at Soriano, near Viterbo. He studied at the Basilica...
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magnum mysterium (1569) is a six-part motet by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, based on the responsorial chant of the same name, and was written for...
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post-Romantic opera Palestrina (1917), loosely based on the life of the sixteenth-century composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and his Missa Papae...
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Monterotondo, and gave a third nephew, Taddeo Barberini, the principality of Palestrina. Taddeo was also made Gonfalonier of the Church, Prefect of Rome and Commander...
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Italian music. Italy's most famous composers include the Renaissance Palestrina, Monteverdi, and Gesualdo; the Baroque Scarlatti, and Vivaldi; the classical...
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1507–1509, Sabina 1509–1521 and Palestrina 1508–1509) Soderini had also been Cardinal-bishop of Albano 1516–1517, Palestrina 1516–1523 and Porto 1523. Fieschi...
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The Praeneste fibula (the "brooch of Palestrina") is a golden fibula or brooch, today housed in the Pigorini National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography...
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by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. Originally titled Motettorum - Liber Quartus, this Renaissance work is one of Palestrina's largest collections of Sacred...
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probably studied with Palestrina at San Luigi de' Francesi in Rome; at any rate, he became maestro di cappella there after Palestrina left. In 1577 he joined...
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unfinished. In 1939, these were joined by the Palestrina Pietà, discovered in the Barberini chapel in Palestrina, though experts now consider its attribution...
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Giacomo Colonna, Prince of Palestrina (1270-1329), more commonly known by his bynames Sciarrillo or Sciarra, was a member of the powerful Colonna family...
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cause of polyphony in the Mass than Palestrina. Pope Pius IV upon hearing Palestrina's music would make Palestrina, by Papal Brief, the model for future...
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