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+ | *'''Puer Palestrine''': As a young man (20), Irish tenor John McCormack was a member of the Palestrina Choir at Saint Mary's Pro-Cathedral in Dublin |
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- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525/6 - 1594): Italian composer of the Renaissance. He was the most famous sixteenth-century representative of the Roman School of musical composition. Palestrina had a vast influence on the development of Roman Catholic church music, and his work can be seen as a summation of Renaissance polyphony.
- Puer Palestrine: As a young man (20), Irish tenor John McCormack was a member of the Palestrina Choir at Saint Mary's Pro-Cathedral in Dublin