Giovanni Animuccia
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Person · Open Library
- Died
- 1571
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Il terzo libro delle laudi spirituali
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Italy
- Active from
- 1520
- Active to
- 1571-03-20
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 155
- Total plays
- 510
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Giovanni Animuccia (c. 1520 – c. 20 March 1571) was an Italian composer of the Renaissance and was involved in the heart of Rome’s liturgical musical life, and one of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina's most important contemporaries. As the first maestro di capella of St Philip Neri's Oratory and magister cantorum of the Capella Giulia, he was composing music at the very centre of the Roman Catholic Church, during the turbulent reforms of the Counter-Reformation <a href="https://www.last.fm/music
Described at
Biografia de Giovanni Animuccia
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Giovanni
- Gender
- male
- Place of birth
- Florence
- Place of death
- Rome
- Sibling
- Paolo Animuccia
- Occupation
- choir director
- Position held
- chapelmaster
- Languages spoken
- Italian
- Student of
- Claude Goudimel
- Movement
- Renaissance music
- Image
- Giovanni Animuccia.jpg
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- date of death
- 1571-01-01
- described at URL
- www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/a/animuccia.htm
- date of birth
- 1520-01-01
- Commons category
- Giovanni Animuccia
- name in native language
- Giovanni Animuccia
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Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Giovanni Animuccia, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
