<P> In the early Baroque Claudio Monteverdi and his brother coined the term prima pratica to refer to the older style of Palestrina, and seconda pratica to refer to Monteverdi's music . </P> <P> The great composers of the late Baroque all wrote compositions in this style, especially Bach . His Mass in B minor has sections written in stile antico which contrast with up - to - date Baroque idioms . Later composers such as Haydn and Mozart also used stile antico . Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, written after the composer's study of Palestrina, is a late flowering of the style . </P>

When did the debate over the stile antico and the stile moderno take place