One of the most prolific composers of the late 16th century, Palestrina wrote 104 settings of the Mass, more than 250 motets, Magnificats, other sacred music, and some secular madrigals ...

Beginning as a boy chorister in Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, Palestrina’s first job was as organist at the Cathedral in Palestrina. In 1551 he was back in Rome as maestro di cappella of the Julian ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. After all the early music scholarship in recent decades, it must seem that the music by a composer as ...