title: Alessandro Della Ciaia
text: # Alessandro Della Ciaia
  
      To be distinguished from a later composer Azzolino Bernardino della Ciaia (1671-1755)
  
  Alessandro Della Ciaia (c. 1605-c. 1670) was an Italian nobleman and amateur composer.
  
  He obtained texts to his madrigals through membership of literary academies in Siena.
  
  ## Works
  
  * Madrigali Op. 1 Venice (1636)
  * Lamentatione sagre Op. 2 (1650)
  * Sacri modulatus. Op. 3 inc. Lamentatio virginis, (1666)
  
  ## Selected discography
  
  * Lamentatio virginis, 1666 on Love and Lament Netherlands Bach Society Jos van Veldhoven, Channel Classics CCS 17098
  * Lamentationi Sagre op.2, 1650, Roberta Invernizzi & Laboratorio '600, Glossa Music, GCD 922903
  