The Music Plays On — Allegri’s Miserere

Not only does Allegri’s Miserere have one of the most unique stories in all music, it is one of the most beautiful and haunting pieces ever composed and is deserving of its four centuries of popularity.

The Italian composer Gregorio Allegri composed his Miserere in most likely the 1630’s during the reign of Pope Urban VIII. I say ‘his’ because the text of the Miserere mei Deus (its full title)…