This man is the title character of a work in which Silla writes a song "in the very latest style" and sings it to Ighino, and in which this man is visited by nine "dead masters.
Jane Bernstein investigates this figure's role in disseminating his own works in the article "Publish or Perish?", and Peter Schubert has used modular analysis to identify "hidden forms" in one set of works by this man. This man is the title character of a work in which Silla writes a song "in the very latest style" and sings it to Ighino, and in which this man is visited by nine "dead masters." This teacher of Gregorio Allegri and composer of the "St. Lawrence Mass" is also the model for the character of "Aloysius" in Gradus ad Parnassum. Giuseppe Baini repopularized this composer, whose "Mass without a Name" was a particular favorite of J.S. Bach, by expanding on a legend about the Council of Trent, which is retold in the aforementioned opera by Hans Pfitzner. FTP, name this composer popularly credited with "saving polyphony" in the Catholic Church with his Pope Marcellus Mass.
Jane Bernstein investigates this figure's role in disseminating his own works in the article "Publish or Perish?", and Peter Schubert has used modular analysis to identify "hidden forms" in one set of works by this man.
Giovanni Pierluigi da {Palestrina}