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Cum ortus fuerit

motet by Palestrina

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In Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Music of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
…masses are such motets as Cum ortus fuerit and Accepit Jesus calicem, the latter apparently a favourite of the composer’s—an assumption justified because he is depicted holding a copy of it in a portrait now in the Vatican.
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