Alessandro Aglione
Alessandro Aglione (* before 1599 in Spoltore ( Abruzzo ), † after 1621 ) was an Italian composer and clergyman at the transition between the music of the Renaissance and that of the early Baroque .
life and work
Alessandro Aglione was born in Spoltore in the Italian region of Abruzzo in the second half of the 16th century . His family had benefited from economic and social changes during that time and achieved a certain degree of prosperity. Aglione joined the Dominican Order , which founded numerous new monasteries during the Counter-Reformation .
Most of Aglione's works are lost or only fragmentarily preserved. From his Canzonette spirituali a tre voci only the melody part has survived, from a Quinto libro dei Motetti (which also contained a mass and Vespers ) only the basso continuo has survived. His Giardino di spirituali concenti , a collection of sacred motets for one, two, three or four parts with organ as basso continuo, is completely preserved. The work was printed in Venice in 1618 , and some of the compositions also appear in later anthologies , so that one can assume that the now almost completely forgotten composer Aglione had a certain reputation among his contemporaries.
literature
- Original print (Venice 1618) of Agliones Giardino di spirituali concenti in the google book search
- Walter Tortoreto, Giustino Pace: Alessandro Aglione: la musica come devozione . Ecamlab Edizioni, Pescara 2003.
Web links
- Sheet music and audio files by Alessandro Aglione in the International Music Score Library Project
- Literature by and about Alessandro Aglione in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Musica in Abruzzo tra Ars nova e Barocco - overview of the development of music creation in Abruzzo between 1400 and 1700 (Italian).
- Article about Alessandro Aglione at Grove Music Online (subject to registration )
Individual evidence
- ↑ aglione, Alessandro | Grove Music. Retrieved February 7, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Alessandro aglione: la musica come devozione. Comune di Spoltore, November 24, 2009, accessed February 7, 2020 (Italian).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Aglione, Alessandro |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian composer of the early baroque |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1599 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Spoltore |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1621 |