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Palestrina
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Palestrina

Town in Lazio region, west-central Italy, 35 km/22 mi east of Rome; population (1991) 15,800. Situated on a spur of the Apennines 450 m/1,476 ft above sea level, Palestrina commands a panoramic view of Rome and the Alban hills. There is a cathedral and the Palazzo Barberini.

Destroyed in a feudal war with the Pope, Palestrina was rebuilt in 1448 by Stefano Colonna; the Temple of Fortune is all that remains of the ancient city on which the town was originally built. The great Renaissance composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was born here around 1525.

Palestrina

Opera by Hans Pfitzner (libretto by composer), produced in Munich on 12 June 1917. The plot concerns the composition of of 16th-century Italian composer Giovanni Palestrina's Missa Papae Marcelli, which the composer undertakes only after long deliberation. In the end the Mass is performed and the Pope is greatly moved.



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