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Alessandro Aglione
italian17th century
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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. 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 the economic and social changes of the time and achieved a certain level of prosperity. Aglione joined the Dominican order, which founded numerous new monasteries during the Counter-Reformation period. Most of Aglione's works are either lost or preserved only in fragments. Only the melody part of his Canzonette spirituali a tre voci survives, of a Quinto libro dei Motetti (which also contained a Mass and Vespers ) only the basso continuo survives. His Giardino di spirituali concenti , a collection of sacred motets for one, two, three or four voices with organ as basso continuo, has been preserved in its entirety. The work was printed in Venice in 1618 , and some of the compositions also appear in later anthologiesso that one can assume that the now almost completely forgotten composer Aglione enjoyed a certain reputation among his contemporaries. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.