Don Lorenzo Perosi

Monsignor Lorenzo Perosi (born 21 December 1872 in Tortona, Italy; died 12 October 1956) was far by the most significant Italian composer of sacred music during the turn of the nineteenth century. He had a considerable international success in the late 1890s and early 1900s; Romain Rolland praised him, and several popes including Pope St. Pius X befriended him.

Famous Works

Oratorios

• La Passione di Cristo (1897)
• La Trasfigurazione di Cristo (1898)
• La Risurrezione di Lazzaro (1898)
• La Risurrezione di Cristo (1898)
• Il Natale del Redentore (1899)
• La Strage degli Innocenti (1900)
• Il Giudizio Universale (1904)
• Transitus Animae (1907)

Masses and Mottetti

• Missa In Honorem Ss. Gervasii et Protassi (1895)
• Missa "Te Deum Laudamus" (1897)
• Missa Eucharistica (1897)
• Missa Pontificalis (1897)
• Messa da Requiem (1897)
• Missa "Benedicamus Domino" (1899)
• Missa Cerviana
• Missa Secunda Pontificalis (1906)
• Numerous mottetti ("melodie sacre")