 Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

was an Italian Renaissance

composer of sacred music and
the best-known 16th-century
representative of the Roman
School of musical composition.
He had a lasting influence on the
development of church music,
and his work is considered as the
culmination of Renaissance
polyphony.
Born: 3 February
1525, Palestrina, Italy
Died: 2 February
1594, Rome, Italy
Palestrina was born in the town
of Palestrina,[3] near Rome, then
part of the Papal States.
Documents suggest that he first
visited Rome in 1537, when he is
listed as a chorister at the Santa
Maria Maggiore basilica. He
studied with Robin
Mallapert and Firmin Lebel. He
spent most of his career in the city
 Palestrina came of age as a musician
under the influence of the northern
European style of polyphony, which
owed its dominance in Italy primarily
to two
influential Netherlandishcomposers, G
uillaume Dufay and Josquin des Prez,
who had spent significant portions of
their careers there. Italy itself had yet
to produce anyone of comparable
fame or skill in polyphony.
 From 1544 to 1551, Palestrina was
the organist of the Cathedral of St.
Agapito, the principal church of his
native city. In 1551 Pope Julius
III (previously the Bishop of
Palestrina) appointed
Palestrina maestro di cappella or
musical director of the Cappella
Giulia,(Julian Chapel, in the sense
of choir), the choir of the chapter
of canons at St. Peter's Basilica
 Palestrina dedicated to Julius
III his first published
compositions (1554), a book
of Masses. It was the first book
of Masses by a native
composer, since in the Italian
states of Palestrina's day, most
composers of sacred music
were from the Low Countries,
France, or Spain
Infact the book was
modeled on one
by Cristóbal de Morales: the
woodcut in the front is
almost an exact copy of
the one from the book by
the Spanish composer.
1.WHEN PALISTRINA BORN?

2.WHEN PALISTRINA DIED?

3.WHERE THE PLACE PALESTRINA

DIED?