composer
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluiggi da
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - also called Johannes Petraloysius Prænestinus or names that are a mixture of these - is one of the most important Italian composers of the Renaissance.
related works
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir
Scoring:
GK
Songs for the living : for mixed choir a cappella, 1991 / Willem Duyn
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir
Scoring:
GK8
Decimo : for mixed choir , 2000 / Hanna Kulenty
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir
Scoring:
GK6
Sweet Cytherae : mixed choir, opus 45, 1975 / Hendrik de Regt
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir
Scoring:
GK4
composition
Missa Benedicta es : for 6 voices / G.P. da Palestrina; transcribed and edited by Cees Wagemakers
Other authors:
Wagemakers, Cees
(editor)
Description:
The Bavarian State Library (Bayerische Staats Bibliothek in Munich, Germany) has a unique collection of large folio format choirbooks from the Bavarian court music ensemble, predominantly from the time of Orlando di Lasso serving as court music director. Several splendidly illustrated choir books originally belonged to the personal collection of the Bavarian dukes. The most beautiful one is the collection of motets by Cipriano de Rore for Duke Albrecht V, also available at Donemus (D 16092). Choirbooks have all the parts on two facing pages, in contrast to the separate books for each voice that we see mostly in Renaissance editions. So a page turn had to come at the same moment for all the voices.
Most of the choirbooks in the Bavarian State Library have no title, as is the case with this book. The library shows only the content index. In that index the name of Palestrina’s mass is mentioned as Missa Benedicta es coelorum (Regina), a so-called parody mass on the motet with the same name. The only indication of the composer was Giannetto on the first page, enough to indicate Palestrina.
Cees Wagemakers, 2018