Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . Reproduction of an Old Engraving on Copper. GIOVANNI PIERLUIGI DA PALESTRINA THIS great pioneer among masters ofmusic was born of humble parents atPalestrina in the Campagna of Rome. Theexact date of his birth is unknown. The in-scription on an old portrait of him in themuniment room of the Pontifical Chapel atthe Quirinal states that he died at abouteighty years of age in 1594, and if this weretrue he would have been born in 1514 or1515. The Abbe Baini interprets a doubt-ful phrase used by his son Igino, in thededication of a posthumous volume of
Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . Reproduction of an Old Engraving on Copper. GIOVANNI PIERLUIGI DA PALESTRINA THIS great pioneer among masters ofmusic was born of humble parents atPalestrina in the Campagna of Rome. Theexact date of his birth is unknown. The in-scription on an old portrait of him in themuniment room of the Pontifical Chapel atthe Quirinal states that he died at abouteighty years of age in 1594, and if this weretrue he would have been born in 1514 or1515. The Abbe Baini interprets a doubt-ful phrase used by his son Igino, in thededication of a posthumous volume of hismasses to Pope Clement VIII, to mean thathis father-died at the age of seventy in theyear 1594. The truth is that the exact dateof his birth cannot be stated. The publicregisters of Palestrina, which would proba-bly have certified it, were destroyed by thesoldiery of Alva in 1557, and no privatedocuments have been discovered which makegood their loss. It is certain, however, that at a very earlyage, and probably about the year 1540, hecame to Rome to study music. Toward thiscareer
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