Giovanni Battista Ala
Giovanni Battista Ala (c. 1598-c.1630) was an Italian organist and composer. Little is known of his life, but Filippo Picinelli praised him as an "excellent organist" and a "stupendous composer" in his Ateneo dei letterati milanesi (1670).
Giovanni Battista Ala
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- 1598 · Monza.
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- composer · organist
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He was born in Monza and died at age 32, though his exact dates are uncertain. He was the organist of the, in Milan, and composer of canzonets, madrigals, and operas (Milan, 1617, 1625), Concerti ecclesiastici (Milan, 1618, 1621, 1628), and several motets in the Pratum musicum (Antwerp, 1634).
Giovanni Battista Ala (1598–1612) was a composer and organist.
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Giovanni Battista Ala, a composer, was born in 1580 in Monza/Mailand and died in 1612 in Milan. Both events are recorded by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
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1598
Giovanni Battista Ala born at Monza.
1612
Giovanni Battista Ala died.
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- 1.Donà, Mariangela. Ala, Giovanni Battista.
- 2.Filippo Picinelli, Ateneo dei letterati milanesi p. 269
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- Ala, Giovanni.
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