Palestrine

• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525/6 - 1594): Italian composer of the Renaissance. 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.

• Puer Palestrine: As a young man (20), Irish tenor John McCormack was a member of the Palestrina Choir at Saint Mary's Pro-Cathedral in Dublin