When Was Missa Papae Marcelli Composed

Pope Marcellus Mass, Latin Missa Papae Marcelli, mass by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, the best known of his more than 100 masses. Published in 1567, the work is renowned for its intricate interplay of vocal lines and has been studied for centuries as a prime example of Renaissance polyphonic choral music.

Why was Missa Papae Marcelli composed?

Palestrina, so the legend goes, composed The Pope Marcellus Mass in order to save polyphonic music: not only to demonstrate its uncanny ability to conjure feelings of the divine, but to show that simultaneous and rhythmically independent vocal lines could be written in a manner that would allow the words to remain …

When was Gloria by Palestrina composed?

This piece was written and published in 1567 during the Renaissance Era. This particular Gloria is part of a mass that is in turn a part of over a hundred other masses Palestrina wrote in his lifetime from 1525-1594.