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(1525/26–94). Composer; b. Palestrina (ancient Praeneste), Roma prov., Latium, cen. Italy. Maestro di cappella, Capella Giulia, Rome, 1551; St. John Lateran 1555–61; Santa Maria Maggiore 1561. Composer to papal chapel 1565; master of music Cappella Giulia 1571. Works include masses, hymns, motets, litanies, magnificats. See also Offertory. WEB

P. H. Lang, Music in Western Civilization (New York, 1941); H. Leichtentritt, Music, History, and Ideas (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1938); The New Oxford History of Music, IV: The Age of Humanism 1540–1630, ed. G, Abraham (London, 1968); Z. K. Pyne, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, His Life and Times (London, 1922).