postcard. 456. PALESTRINA, Giovanni Perluigi, known as Di Palestrina, born in Palestrina (Italy) in 1524, He was master of the chapel of Saint-Jean-de-Latran, of Sainte-Marie-Majeure and of Saint-Pierre du Vatican., IL was the first to give religious music the appropriate seriousness, without neglecting the smoothness of the harmony. We owe him 13 books of masses, the most esteemed of which is the mass of Pope Marcel, and a host of hymns and litanies ., He died in 1594. Collections ND. Photo

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