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GIUSEPPE BAINI (1775-1844)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 223 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BAINI (1775-1844)  , See also:Italian See also:priest, musical critic and composer of See also:church See also:music, was See also:born at See also:Rome on the 21st of See also:October 1775 . He was instructed in See also:composition by his See also:uncle, Lorenzo See also:Baini, and afterwards by G . Jannaconi . In 1814 he was appointed musical director to the See also:choir of the pontifical See also:chapel, to which he had as See also:early as 1802 gained See also:admission in virtue of his See also:fine See also:bass See also:voice . His compositions, of which very few have been published, were very favourable specimens of the severe ecclesiastical See also:style; one in particular, a ten-See also:part See also:Miserere, composed for See also:Holy See also:Week in 1821 by See also:order of See also:Pope See also:Pius VII., has taken a permanent See also:place in the services of the Sistine chapel during See also:Passion Week . Baini held a higher place, however, as a musical critic and historian than as a composer, and his See also:Life of See also:Palestrina (Memorie storico-critiche della vita e delle ' opere di Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, 1828) ranks as one of the best See also:works of its class . The phrase Il Principe della Musica, which has become finally associated with the name of Palestrina, originates with this See also:biography . Giuseppe Baini died on the 21st of May 1844 in Rome .

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