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  "name": "Gregorio Allegri",
  "description": "Gregorio Allegri appears once in our Baroque list, placing as high as No. 7. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.",
  "updated": "2026-08-30",
  "url": "https://waxonia.com/artist/gregorio-allegri/",
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    "first": 1638,
    "last": 1638
  },
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      "trackKey": "gregorio-allegri--miserere-mei-deus",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/gregorio-allegri--miserere-mei-deus/",
      "title": "Miserere mei, Deus",
      "year": 1638,
      "label": null,
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "The Sistine Chapel forbade copies for over a century, until the fourteen- year-old Mozart heard it twice and wrote it out from memory. The high C is probably a transcription error, and nobody wants it corrected.",
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