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It could be difficult to split up myth from truth in the life span of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. He was perhaps one of the most extremely acclaimed musicians from the sixteenth hundred years, but had not been the “Savior of Cathedral Music.” He do write a significant variety of …

If one were to mention the composer that stitches the seam between your Renaissance as well as the Baroque, it could be Claudio Monteverdi — the same composer who’s largely and sometimes credited with building the cut to begin with. The road from his first canzonettas and madrigals to his …