To mark Palestrina’s half-millennium, Edward Breen chats with members of Stile Antico, an ensemble championing his works which itself is celebrating its 20th anniversary Palestrina was a carpet seller ...

The consummate vocal ensemble beautifully highlighted symbolic connections between the 16th-century Italian composer and soon-to-be 90 Arvo Pärt This year marks the 500th anniversary of the birth of ...

Image above: A page from a book of music by Renaissance composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, part of the Burns Library collection. A trio of events hosted by the Boston College Music Department ...

Last week’s instalment was a fine example of composer’s ego run riot. In this week’s, the composer almost disappears. This might seem an odd thing to say about Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (the ...

The Holy Father offered his praise to polyphonic music while welcoming participants at the June 18 event commemorating the 500th anniversary of the birth of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. After all the early music scholarship in recent decades, it must seem that the music by a composer as prominent ...

Beginning as a boy chorister in Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, Palestrina’s first job was as organist at the Cathedral in Palestrina. In 1551 he was back in Rome as maestro di cappella of the Julian ...

Palestrina, Pfitzner's "musical legend", polarises opinion more sharply than almost any other opera. Its admirers claim it as a masterpiece: a profound exploration of the nature of creativity and the ...