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Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da (c. 1525–1594)

Italian composer. He wrote secular and sacred choral music, and is regarded as the outstanding exponent of Renaissance counterpoint. Apart from motets and madrigals, he also wrote 105 Masses, including Missa Papae Marcelli.
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