Born: Cir­ca 1525, prob­ab­ly in Pal­es­tri­na, It­a­ly (near Rome).

Died: Feb­ru­a­ry 2, 1594, Rome, Ita­ly.

Buried: St. Pe­ter’s Ba­sil­i­ca, Va­tic­an Ci­ty.

Palestrina ranks among the great chor­al mu­sic com­pos­ers. He be­came mas­ter of the Capel­la Giu­lia in Rome in 1551. He wrote mass­es, chor­al­es, ma­dri­gals, and other works.

Sources

Music

  1. Gloria Patri
  2. Victory