Alessandro Grandi (1586-1630)

“This is truly a masterpiece, every part of which is a jewel, forming a long row of pearls. The music is imbued with unfathomable spiritual depth.”
Robert Chase: Dies Irae – A Guide to Requiem Music, 2003

“The level of inspiration in Francesco Cavalli’s Missa pro defunctis is in no way inferior to that to be felt in the Mozart Requiem”
A.W. Ambros, 1816-1876, musicologist