BAINI, GIUSEPPE Italian priest, musical critic and composer of church music, was born at Rome on Oct. 21, 1775, and died there on May 21, 1844. He was instructed in composition by his uncle, Lorenzo Baini, and afterwards by G. Jannaconi. In 1814 he was appointed musical director to the choir of the pontifical chapel, of which he had been a member since 1802. His compositions, of which very few have been pub lished, show a reversion to the severe ecclesiastical style of the 16th century; and one, a ten-part Miserere, composed for Holy Week in 1821 by order of Pope Pius VII., has taken a permanent place in the services of the Sistine chapel during Passion Week. Of still greater value is his Life of Palestrina (Memorie storico critiche della vita e delle opere di Giovanni Pierluigi da Pales trina, 1828), which is justly regarded as a classic in musical literature.