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CONSTANZO FESTA (c. 1495–1545)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 294 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FESTA (c. 1495–1545)  ,
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Italian
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singer and musical composer, became a member of the Pontifical
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choir in
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Rome in 1517, and soon afterwards
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maestro at the Vatican . His motets and madrigals (the first
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book of which appeared in 1537) excited Dr
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Burney's warm praise in his
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History of
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Music; and, among other
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church music, his Te Deum (published in 1596) is still sung at important services in Rome . His
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madrigal, called in
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English " Down in a flow'ry vale," is well known .

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