4. Palestrina

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (3 February 1525 or 2 February 1526 – 2 February 1594)

According to Wikipedia...

'Palestrina was an Italian Renaissance composer of sacred music and the best-known 16th-century representative of the Roman School of musical composition. He had a lasting influence on the development of church music, and his work has often been seen as the culmination of Renaissance polyphony.'

Great music, shame about the faith! What's one of the World's most gifted composers doing bowing down to papal idols and setting psalms to music? Was he totally demented? You wouldn't think so to listen to his music, full of transcendant glory, but, on sober and careful reflection, how can we respect someone who was so obviously certifiably insane?! Cretin! Nunc Dimitis? Leave us in peace more like, Pal, with your latin nonsense and sky-fairy myth believing absurdities! Reason-rejecting moron! I suppose some believers would posit incredible polyphony like this to be some kind of 'proof' for an eternal, transcendent being. We want scientific data, not melodious chant, you un-evolved, ridiculous  anomalies of the human race!