Background
Abbate Pietro Alfieri was born in Rome, Italy on June 29, 1801.
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Abbate Pietro Alfieri
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He was a Camadulian monk, professor of singing at the English College, Rome.
Achievements
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His fine collection of 16th-century church-music (mostly by Palestrina), ‘‘ Raccolta di Musica Sacra,” in 7 volumes, is very valuable, and is supplemented by later and less extensive ones: “Excerpta ex celebrioribus de musica viris” [ Praenestino, Vittoria, Allegri] ( Rome, 1840); “ Raccolta di M ottetti” [Palestrina, Vittoria, Avia, Anerio] (Rome, 1841), etc.; his essays on plain song: ‘‘ Acrompagnamento col- l’Organo" (1840) ; “Ristabilmento del Canto e d. Mus. eccl.” (1843) ; “Saggio storico .. . d. Canto Cregoriano” (1855); “Prodromo sulla restaur, de’ libri di Canto detto Greg.” (1857); and many other articles in musical periodicals on eccl. music, are of noteworthy historical interest; as also his biogr. sketches of N. Jommelli (1845), B. Bittoni, and others. He died in Rome on June 12, 1863.
