Alessandro Costantini (ca. 1581–1583,

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– 20 October 1657, Rome) was an Italian baroque composer, ''

maestro di cappella (, also , ) from German ''Kapelle'' (chapel) and ''Meister'' (master)'','' literally "master of the chapel choir" designates the leader of an ensemble of musicians. Originally used to refer to somebody in charge of music in a chapel, the term ha ...

'' at the

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. His surviving works include several Latin

motet In Western classical music, a motet is mainly a vocal musical composition, of highly diverse form and style, from high medieval music to the present. The motet was one of the pre-eminent polyphonic forms of Renaissance music. According to Margar ...

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Karl Gustav Fellerer Karl Gustav Fellerer (7 July 1902 – 7 January 1984) was a German musicologist. His works include more than 600 scientific publications on catholic church music, Italian music from 1600 to the beginning of the 20th century, and music history of t ...

to his 60th birthday; Heinrich Hüschen, Karl Gustav Fellerer, 1962 Musik, Series II: ''Landschaftsdenkmale der Musik: Bayern'', vol. 1, "4. Alessandro Costantini: 'Pastores loquebantur'", Mainz: Schott 1936 (Canticum vetus 11) He and his brother, the composer , were pupils of

Giovanni Bernardino Nanino Giovanni Bernardino Nanino (ca. 1560 – 1623) was an Italian composer, teacher and singing master of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, and a leading member of the Roman School of composers. He was the younger brother of the some ...

. His brother-in-law was the

countertenor A countertenor (also contra tenor) is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range is equivalent to that of the female contralto or mezzo-soprano voice types, generally extending from around G3 to D5 or E5, although a sopranist (a s ...

, whose sons, the composers

Vincenzo Albrici Vincenzo Albrici (26 June 1631 in Rome - 7 September 1687 in Prague) was an Italian composer, brother of Bartolomeo and nephew of Fabio and Alessandro Costantini. Albrici was born as the son of singer who settled from Marche in Rome. In 1641 he ...

and , were his nephews.

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17th-century Italian composers Italian male composers Italian organists Male organists 1580s births 1657 deaths Year of birth uncertain 17th-century male musicians {{Italy-composer-stub