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Henceforth Italian music was to be a vigorous, fruitful stock. Giovanni Perluigui Aloisio da Palestrina was born at Palestrina, the ancient Præneste, in 1524.* * Our composer, as was common with artists and scholars in those days, took the name of his natal town, and by this he is known to fame. Old documents also give him the old Latin name of the town with the personal ending.
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