ALALEGONA, DOMENICO. — Musicologist and composer, b. at Montegiorgio (Macerata) on 16 Nov. 1881, d. there on 24 Nov. 1928. He graduated from S. Cecilia in 1906, presenting as his final work a dramatic poem *Attollite portas*; he also composed a four-voice *Requiem* and various sacred choruses. He transcribed some 16th-century Italian spiritual *Laudi* for orchestra, etc. As a musicologist, he published *Studi sulla storia dell’Oratorio musicale in Italia* (Turin 1908), a fundamental work but marred by an anti-religious spirit, as well as various articles on the spiritual *Laudi* (*Le laudi spirituali italiane nei secc. XVI e XVII e i loro rapporti coi canti profani*, in *Rivista musicale italiana*, 16 [1909], pp. 1 ff.), on Emilio de’ Cavalieri (*La nuova Musica*, 1 [1905]), etc.
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