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1voice mass of his are in the Santini collection in Rome.—Ambros, iv. 107; Fétis.
3ALLEGRI, FILIPPO, born at Florence, July 18, 1768, died (?). Church composer, pupil of Luigi Braccini; became professor at the seminary, and maestro di cappella at San Michele. Among his compositions are: Requiem Mass for four voices and grand orchestra; O Salutaris hostia, for soprano and bass; Verbum caro factum est, motet for tenor and bass.—Fétis; Mendel.
5ALLEGRI, GREGORIO, born in Rome in 1560, died there, Feb. 18, 1652. He was of the same family as Antonio Allegri, the painter, surnamed "Il Correggio." A pupil of Giovanni Maria Nanini, he reached the age of manhood just as Palestrina's fame was at its height. He was then a beneficed priest attached to the cathedral at Fermo. On Dec. 6, 1629, Urban VIII called him to Rome to enter the college of papal singers, where he remained until his death. He was buried in S. Maria in Vallicella, in the tomb appropriated to the college of singers of the Vatican choir. Allegri was one of the shining lights of the great Roman School, sometimes called the Palestrina School. If his music shows, in general, all the purity of style, objective beauty, and elevation of religious sentiment for which the school is noted, the subjective emotional element often asserts itself. In Allegri the use of dissonances for the expression of agonized grief is more frequent, and plainly more intentional, than in Palestrina and Nanini; nor are other quasi-picturesque traits wanting. In this sense, Allegri may be looked upon as a sort of connecting link between the so-called "great" (Roman) period of Italian music, and the ensuing "beautiful" (Neapolitan) period. His most famous composition is his great Miserere for two choruses, which is still sung in the Sixtine Chapel on every Good Friday. His published compositions are: Il primo libro di concerti a due, tre e quattro voci (Rome, Soldi, 1618); Il secondo libro di, etc. (ib., 1619); Gregorii Allegri Romani Firmanae ecclesiae beneficiati motecta duarum, trium, quatuor, quinque, sex vocum, liber primus (ib., 1620); 'do., do., liber secundus, (ib., 1621); Egredimini et videte, for 2 sopranos and tenor, in Fabio Constantini's "Scelta di motetti" (1618). A large number of works in MS. are in the archives of S. Maria in Vallicella, the Pontifical Chapel, the Collegio Romano, and in the Library of the Abbate Santini. The Altaemps collection, in the Collegio Romano, contains several important instrumental compositions.—Ambros, iv. 90; Fétis; Naumann (Ouseley), i. 512.
7ALLEGRO, IL PENSERO SO ED IL MODERATO, L', text adapted from Milton by Charles Jennens, who added the third part, music by Handel, first produced at the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre, London, Feb. 27, 1740. The score, in Buckingham Palace, is dated at the beginning Jan. 19, 1740, and at the end Feb. 4, 1740. Published by Walsh, and by the Händel-Gesellschaft (Leipsic, 1859). Robert Franz has supplied the score with complete additional accompaniments.—Rockstro, Handel, 212; Schöelcher, Händel, 229; Chrysander, III. 112.
9ALLEN, ALFRED BENJAMIN, born at Kingsland, Middlesex, England, Sept. 4, 1850, still living, 1888. Pianist, studied at the London Academy of Music, 1868. Works: Songs, orchestral and organ music, and a secular cantata.
11ALLEN, GEORGE BENJAMIN, born in London, April 21, 1822, still living, 1888. Dramatic composer, chorister at St. Martin's-in-the Field, 1830, in Westminster Abbey, 1832, at Armagh Cathedral, Ireland, 1843, resigned in 1862, and became organist and choirmaster of All Saints' Church at Kensington; afterwards organist at Toorak,
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