Accepit Jesus calicem

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  • TITLE: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (Italian composer)
    SECTION: Music
    ...artistry that is every bit as successful as that of the masses. On the same level as the canonic 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.