Background
Giovanni was born in 1580, in Monza, Lombardia, Italy.
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Giovanni Battista Ala
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Little is known of his life, but Filippo Picinelli praised him as an "excellent organist" and a "stupendous composer" in his Ateneo dei letterati milanesi (1670).
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).
