ALALEONA, DOMENICO. – Musicologist and composer, born in Montegiorgio (Macerata) on 16 November 1881, died there on 24 November 1928. Having graduated from S. Cecilia in 1906, he presented as his final examination piece a dramatic poem Attolite portas; he also composed a “Requiem” for four voices and various religious choruses. He transcribed several sixteenth-century Italian Laudi spirituali for orchestra, etc. As a musicologist, he published Studi sulla storia dell'Oratorio musicale in Italia (Turin 1908), a fundamental work, though clouded by an antireligious spirit, as well as various articles on the Laudi spirituali (Le laudi spirituali italiane nel sec. 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.
ALALEONA, DOMENICO
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“ALALEONA, DOMENICO.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I (1948), p. 386. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/alaleona-domenico.