The almost unbelievable legend of how 14-year-old Mozart came to copy down Allegri’s Miserere, note for note, after hearing it just once. Gregorio Allegri’s sublime Miserere Mei, Deus, a nine-voice ...

Allegri’s heavenly ‘Miserere’ is the stuff of legends. Well, one particular legend, to be precise... Here’s everything you need to know about Gregorio Allegri’s Miserere Mei including what the lyrics ...

The name the Miserere, refers to the Psalm to which the music is set, Psalm 51. Gregorio Allegri composed this work sometime around 1638 for the annual celebration of the matins during Holy Week ...

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March 16, 2008 • Composer Gregorio Allegri's "Miserere" is a piece of choral music so powerful that a 17th-century pope decreed it could be played only during the week leading to Easter — and ...

For a couple of centuries, the only place where you could hear the Misere, that extraordinarily beautiful choral work written in the 1630s by Gregorio Allegri, was in the famed Sistine Chapel in ...

An exploration of the impact of Allegri's 17th-century music, originally sung in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel. From September 2009. Show more Allegri wrote the chord sequence for his Miserere in ...