Johannes Petrus Aluisius [Giovanni Pierluigi da]  Palestrina   [Praenestinus] 

Palestrina;  born  ca.  1525  in Palestrina; in the choir of Santa Maria Maggiore, October, 1537 -before October  1544 ; organist at the cathedral of Palestrina, 28 October  1544 -August  1551 ;  maestro  of the Cappella Giulia, September  1551 -December  1554 ; admitted without examination by motu proprio, 13 January  1555  [ DS ];  mandati : February-August  1555 ;  maestro  of San Giovanni in Laterano, October  1555 -July  1560 ;  maestro  of Santa Maria Maggiore, March  1561 - 1566 ; in the employ of Cardinal Ippolito II d'Este and the Seminario Romano  1566 - 1571 ;  maestro    of the Cappella Giulia, April  1571 -February  1594 ;  died  in Rome on 2 February  1594  and was buried in St. Peter's [ DS ].

On 30 July  1555 , Palestrina, along with   Bonot/Barre  and  Ferrabosco , was excluded from the choir because of his married state [See Document...]. The three singers were granted monthly pensions of 5 ducats 87  baiocchi , and remained in the  mandati  lists in a special category eventually labled "coniugatis." In June  1565 , 3 ducats 13  baiocchi  were added to Palestrina's pension "ex causis diversorum compositionum quas hactenus edidit et est editurus ad commodum dicte capelle" [ Camerale I , 917, fol. 4r, repeated in following lists]; he was therefore at this time appointed official composer to the chapel. At the new pension of 9 ducats, he remains in the lists until his death.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:  TNG .