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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

1520 - 1594

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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (between 3 February 1525 and 2 February 1526 – 2 February 1594) was an Italian composer of late Renaissance music. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina has received more than 1,374,835 page views. His biography is available in 98 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 91 in 2019). Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina is the 28th most popular composer (up from 29th in 2019), the 103rd most popular biography from France (down from 88th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular French Composer.

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina is most famous for his contributions to the development of the polyphonic style of Renaissance music.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina ranks 28 out of 1,451. Before him are Igor Stravinsky, Ennio Morricone, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Claude Debussy, Bedřich Smetana, and Dmitri Shostakovich. After him are Jacques Offenbach, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Maurice Ravel, Hector Berlioz, Richard Strauss, and Guido of Arezzo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1520, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina ranks 1. After him are Pope Sixtus V, Sigismund II Augustus, Vincenzo Galilei, Barbara Radziwiłł, Koca Sinan Pasha, Christophe Plantin, William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, Matthias Flacius, Alessandro Farnese, Thoinot Arbeau, and Dorothea of Denmark, Electress Palatine. Among people deceased in 1594, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina ranks 3. Before him are Gerardus Mercator, and Tintoretto. After him are Orlande de Lassus, Ishikawa Goemon, Archduchess Eleanor of Austria, Martin Frobisher, Bálint Balassi, Alonso de Ercilla, Thomas Kyd, Girolamo Mei, and William Allen.

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In France

Among people born in France, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina ranks 103 out of 6,770. Before him are Marcel Duchamp (1887), Claude Debussy (1862), Louis XI of France (1423), François Mitterrand (1916), Nicolas Poussin (1594), and Philip II of France (1165). After him are André Gide (1869), Philip V of Spain (1683), Charles XIV John of Sweden (1763), Henry II of France (1519), Georges Danton (1759), and Philippe Pétain (1856).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina ranks 3. Before him are Georges Bizet (1838), and Claude Debussy (1862). After him are Maurice Ravel (1875), Hector Berlioz (1803), Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683), Camille Saint-Saëns (1835), Erik Satie (1866), Jules Massenet (1842), Charles Gounod (1818), Gabriel Fauré (1845), and Josquin des Prez (1450).

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