Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina dies at the age of 68.

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Italian Renaissance composer (c. 1525 – 1594)

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was an Italian composer of late Renaissance music. The central representative of the Roman School, with Orlande de Lassus and Tomás Luis de Victoria, Palestrina is considered the leading composer of late 16th-century Europe.