Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (3 February 1525 or 2 February 1526 - 2 February 1594) was an Italian Renaissance composer of sacred music and the best-known 16th-century representative of the Roman School of musical composition. He had a lasting influence on the development church music, and his work has often been seen as the culmination of Renaissance polyphony.
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