'Allegri's Miserere' in the Sistine Chapel

'Allegri's Miserere' in the Sistine Chapel

Author: Graham O'Reilly

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 1783274875

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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.