Artist
Gregorio Allegri
Gregorio Allegri appears once in our Baroque list, placing as high as No. 7. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.
- Ranked entries
- 1
- Appears on
- Baroque
- Year
- 1638
- Highest placing
- No. 7 in Baroque
- Updated
- 2026-08-30
Appears on
Miserere mei, Deus
1638
Ranked No. 7 in Baroque
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.