'Allegri's Miserere' in the Sistine Chapel
- ISBN-10
- 1783274875
- ISBN-13
- 9781783274871
- Category
- Music
- Pages
- 372
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer
- Author
- Graham O'Reilly
Description
The Miserere by Italian composer Gregorio Allegri (1582-1652) is one of the most popular, oft performed and recorded choral pieces of late Renaissance/early Baroque music. Yet the piece known today bears little resemblanceto Allegri's original or to the piece as it was performed before 1870.
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