Baroque Music
by Claude V. Palisca
Period: Baroque
Born: c. 1582 in Rome, Italy
Died: Wednesday, February 7, 1652 in Rome, Italy
Nation of Origin: Italy
Major Works:
Miserere composed for the Sistine Chapel, is unusual in that
it is scored for 9 voice parts. The parts are divided among 2
choirs, one with 4 voices and the other with 5.
Other Information:
Allegri was a Catholic priest. He composed church music of which
his Miserere was most famous. The Catholic church forbade
the publication of the work under penalty of excommunication.
Mozart, however, was so impressed with the Miserere that he
violated the law and wrote it out by memory after hearing it only
twice.
General Bibliography:
Bukofzer, Manfred F., Music in the Baroque Era, from Monteverdi
to Bach, W.W. Norton & Company, November 1947, ISBN:
0393097455
Kennedy, Michael, The Oxford Dictionary of
Music, Oxford University Press, 2nd Edition, 1997, ISBN:
0198691629
Palisca, Claude V. Baroque Music, Prentice Hall, December
1990, ISBN: 0130584967
Sadie, Stanley and Tyrrell, John; Editors, The New Grove
Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Groves Dictionaries, Inc.,
January 2001, ISBN: 1561592390
Slonimsky, Nicolas and Kuhn, Laura; Editors,
Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Gale Group,
December 2000, ISBN: 0028655257
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