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ALLEGRI, GREGORIO BIOGRAPHY

(1582 - 1652)

In a career largely centred on Rome, Allegri provided music for the papal choir.

Church Music

Allegri's most famous work is his setting of the Miserere for five-part choir, with a second four-part choir of soloists. The work was kept secret, but the 14-year-old Mozart wrote it out from memory, after he had heard it sung in Holy Week in the Sistine Chapel in 1770.


Albums featuring this composer are available for download from ClassicsOnline.com

101 CLASSICS - The Best Loved Classical Melodies

8.508004

Choral - Sacred

CHORAL MASTERPIECES

8.550827

Choral - Sacred

MYSTIC VOICES - Divine Music from the Heavens

8.570169-70

Choral - Sacred

UNGER-HAMILTON, C.: Discover Music of the Baroque Era

NA495912

Choral - Sacred

Voices of Angels

8.503071

Choral - Sacred

Live in Rome: Celebrating Palestrina's 400th Anniversary

GIMDP903

Classical Concert

PALESTRINA: Missa Papae Marcelli / ALLEGRI: Miserere

8.553238

Choral - Sacred

Music and Video Club Vol. 1(UK only)

8.555081

Choral - Sacred

The Best of Naxos 8

8.551201

Choral - Sacred

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