Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina


Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Nationality: Italian
Born: 1525-1594
Education/Training:
chorister at Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica

Best Known For:
being a composer of the Roman School during the Renaissance; music has been viewed as the pinnacle of late Renaissance polyphony, along with contemporaries Orlando di Lasso and William Byrd

Notable Compositions:
wrote hundreds of compositions, including at least 105 masses, 68 offertories, 140 madrigals and 300 motets; most well-known works include Missa Papae Marcelli, Sicut Cervus and Exultate Deo

Assignments:
organist at St. Agapito in Palestrina; later made maestro di cappella of Cappella Giulia at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome

REPERTOIRE: Kyrie from Pope Marcellus Mass

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September 11: Bearing Witness to history Jul 1, 2004

REPERTOIRE: Missa Papae Marcelli (Pope Marcellus Mass)

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Stone to Steel May 23, 2004

REPERTOIRE: Hodie Christus Natus Est

REPERTOIRE: Missa Brevis

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Echoes of the Renaissance May 2, 1992

REPERTOIRE: Stabat Mater

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Echoes of the Renaissance May 2, 1992
A French Christmas Dec 20, 1981

REPERTOIRE: Super Flumina Babylonis

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Roger Wagner at 70 Jan 21, 1984
An English Christmas Dec 13, 1980
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Music Feb 15, 1970
Claremont Colleges Concert Mar 25, 1971

REPERTOIRE: Rorate Coeli

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A Choral Cornucopia Oct 16, 1982
Music -- Majestic and Mystic Feb 15, 1975

REPERTOIRE: Surge, Illuminare, Hierusalem

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Christmas with the Chorale Dec 17, 1972
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Music Feb 15, 1970

REPERTOIRE: Haec Dies

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Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Music Feb 15, 1970

REPERTOIRE: O Bone Jesus

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Christmas Dec 15, 1984

REPERTOIRE: Tu es Petrus

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50th Season Celebration Sep 22, 2013

REPERTOIRE: Kyrie

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Stone to Steel May 23, 2004

REPERTOIRE: Gloria

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Stone to Steel May 23, 2004

REPERTOIRE: Credo

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Stone to Steel May 23, 2004

REPERTOIRE: Sanctus

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Stone to Steel May 23, 2004

REPERTOIRE: Benedictus

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Stone to Steel May 23, 2004

REPERTOIRE: Agnus Dei I

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Stone to Steel May 23, 2004

REPERTOIRE: Agnus Dei II

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Stone to Steel May 23, 2004

REPERTOIRE: Alma Redemptoris Mater

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14th Annual High School Choir Festival Apr 29, 2003

REPERTOIRE: Exultate Deo

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Sounds of the Season Dec 15, 2002

REPERTOIRE: Exsultate Deo

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Mystic Chant Apr 28, 1996

REPERTOIRE: Tu Es Petrus

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For Voices Only Mar 7, 1993

REPERTOIRE: Super Flumina Babylonis

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A Roger Wagner Celebration Jan 24, 1999

REPERTOIRE: Stabat Mater

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Double Chorus Concert Nov 1, 1998

REPERTOIRE: Rorate Coeli

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Home for the Holidays Dec 14, 1997

REPERTOIRE: O Bone Jesu

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13th Annual High School Choir Festival Apr 12, 2002

REPERTOIRE: Tu es Petrus

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13th Annual High School Choir Festival Apr 12, 2002

REPERTOIRE: Sicut cervus

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11th Annual High School Choir Festival May 5, 2000