Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1526 - 1594)  ItaliaGiovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c 1525?2 February 1594) was an Italian composer of Renaissance music. 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. | 
