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Claude Goudimel was a French composer. He was born in 1510 and died in 1572 being killed during the St Bartholomew massacres at Lyons. Palestrina was one of his pupils at Rome. His most important work is a setting of the French version of the Psalms by Marot and Beza.
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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was an Italian composer. He was born in 1524 and died in 1594. His works include Marcellus Mass.
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Henry Aldrich was Dean of Christchurch, Oxford. He was born in 1647 and died in 1710. He was distinguished as a writer on logic, as an architect, and as a musician. His Compendium of Logic was a text-book until the end of the 19th century. He adapted many of the works of the older musicians, such as Palestrina and Carissimi, to the liturgy of the Church of England, and composed many services and anthems, some of which are still heard in English cathedrals.
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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was an Italian composer. He was born in 1524 at Palestrina and died in 1594. He took his name from the town where he was born and studied in Rome around 1540 before returning to Palestrina where he became canon and organist from 1544 until 1551 when he was made master of music at the Vatican. In 1555 he lost his post at the Vatican but took a post at St John Lateran. In 1571 he returned to the Vatican and remained there until his death. He was famous for his polyphonic music, and composed Masses and some madrigals.
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