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FESTA, CONSTANZO (c. 1495–1545)

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

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