The Schola Cantorum of Rome
CHOIR AT THE MEDIEVAL PAPAL COURT
Schola cantorum (papal choir)
The Schola Cantorum was the trained papal choir during the Middle Ages, specializing in the performance of plainchant for the purpose of rendering the music in church. In the fourth century, Pope Sylvester I was said to have inaugurated the first Schola Cantorum, but it was Pope Gregory I who established the school on a firm basis and endowed it.