Definition of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

1. Noun. Italian composer (1526-1594).

Exact synonyms: Palestrina
Generic synonyms: Composer

Lexicographical Neighbors of Giovanni Pierluigi Da Palestrina

Giordano Bruno
Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio de Chirico
Giosue Carducci
Giottesque
Giotto
Giotto di Bondone
Giovannetti diet
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Cabato
Giovanni Cimabue
Giovanni Jacopo Casanova
Giovanni Jacopo Casanova de Seingalt
Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (current term)
Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli
Giovanni da Verrazano
Giovanni da Verrazzano
Giovanni de Medici
Giovanni di Bernardone
Gipsy
Giraffa
Giraffa camelopardalis
Giraffidae
Girard
Girard's reagent
Giraudoux
Girawa
Girdlestone

Literary usage of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. University Musical Encyclopedia by Louis Charles Elson (1912)
"GREAT COMPOSERS Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 'T'HIS great pioneer among masters of music was •^ born of humble parents at Palestrina in the Cam- pagna ..."

2. A Score of Famous Composers by Nathan Haskell Dole (1891)
"(Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.) 1B14-1594. IN the year '1798 the French occupied Rome, and Mesplet, the Commissioner of Fine Arts, gave a grand concert ..."

3. Famous Composers and Their Works by John Knowles Paine, Theodore Thomas, Karl Klauser (1891)
"Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina IOVANNI PIERLUIGI DA PALESTRINA received his last name from the town of Palestrina, the ancient Praeneste, ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Palestrina is the birthplace of the archaeologist Andrea Ful vio and of the prince of sacred music, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. ..."

5. The Papacy and the Levant (1204-1571). by Kenneth M. Setton (1984)
"... Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Turin, 1971, esp. pp. 324-26, who (like Jeppesen) date the Mass of Pope Marcellus to the years 1562-1563, and cf., ..."

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