Given the following dates:


Organs at San Petronio - 1475 and 1585

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - 1525? - 1594

Council of Trent - 1545 - 1563

Tomas Luis de Victoria - 1548? – 1611

Victoria active in Rome - 1569 - 1585

Girolamo Frescobaldi - 1583 - 1643

Frescobaldi organist at St. Peter's - 1608? - 1643

Frescobaldi interregnum at the Court of Florence - 1628 - 1634


and the conventional wisdom that the a cappella tradition of the Sistine
Chapel was the exception (on account of the tiny choir loft), what
sort(s) of organ(s) would have been available to Palestrina and Victoria?

Obviously the "typical" Italian late Renaissance / early Baroque organ
had taken shape by then; in chapels other than the Sistine, would they
have played the "large" organs to accompany the choir, or would a
smaller table-organ or portativ been part of the band of instruments? I
believe there was an inventory of instruments used in the Pauline
Chapel, but I can't locate it at the moment.

Cheers,

Bud Clark
San Diego CA USA

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