Giovanni Battista Ala

Giovanni Battista Ala (c. 1598-c.1630)^[1] was an Italian organist and composer. Little is known of his life,^[1] but Filippo Picinelli praised him as an "excellent organist" and a "stupendous composer" in his Ateneo dei letterati milanesi (1670).^[2]

He was born at Monza and died at age 32, though his exact dates are uncertain. He was the organist of the Church dei Servitori [it], 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).

Notes

^ ^a ^b Donà, Mariangela (2001). "Ala, Giovanni Battista". In Sadie, Stanley; Tyrrell, John (eds.). The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd ed.). London: Macmillan Publishers. ISBN 978-1-56159-239-5.‎
^ Filippo Picinelli, Ateneo dei letterati milanesi p. 269

References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Grove, George, ed. (1900). "Ala, Giovanni" . A Dictionary of Music and Musicians. London: Macmillan and Company.

[Grove-1] Donà, Mariangela (2001). "Ala, Giovanni Battista". In Sadie, Stanley; Tyrrell, John (eds.). The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd ed.). London: Macmillan Publishers. ISBN 978-1-56159-239-5.‎

[2] Filippo Picinelli, Ateneo dei letterati milanesi p. 269

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