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Miserere mei, Deus (Allegri) (Wikipedia)

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Allegri's Miserere's Wikipedia article is a community-edited encyclopedia entry, covering the nine-voice setting of Psalm 51, its reservation to exclusive performance in the Sistine Chapel under threat of excommunication for copying it, and the fourteen-year-old Mozart's 1770 memory transcription, later published by Charles Burney in 1771. Its strength is that these are the kind of stable, documentable composition and transmission history facts a general reference handles well. Its limit is that a claim about the piece's specific liturgical function within Holy Week Tenebrae services needs a source examining that directly, not this general overview.

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Assessment
Reliability Tier
3
A continuously revised, community-edited encyclopedia article, reliable for the piece's stable, documentable composition and transmission history but not for a claim needing scholarly liturgical analysis, matching this corpus's settled precedent for Wikipedia citations.
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Encyclopedic facts for Allegri's nine-voice Psalm 51 setting: its reservation to the Sistine Chapel under threat of excommunication for copying it, and the fourteen-year-old Mozart's 1770 memory transcription, later published by Charles Burney in 1771.
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Wikipedia
Publication Year
2026
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miserere_(Allegri)
Source Type
reference
Claims Backed By This Source (24 claims)

This source backs 24 claims across the atlas. As facts: 17 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 4 holds, 1 connected. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

  • Musical Works, 14 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 4 holds, 1 connected, 1 general references.
  • Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
  • Articles, 2 claims: 2 well-attested.
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