Perosi went to Regensburg in 1893 to study church music; he was made choirmaster St.
Mark's in Venice in 1894, ordained priest in 1895 and appointed music director of the
Sistine Chapel in 1898. In 1922 he entered a mental hospital.
In 1930 he was honoured with membership of the Reale Accademia
d'Italia.
The good qualities of the Italian composer found their most durable
expression not in the oratorios but in the best of the many smaller religious works, often
strongly influenced by Gregorian chant and 16th-century polyphony.
Perosi was the first modern Italian composer to be significantly
influenced by pre-Classical music.
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