Effective period / Period of releases: 2001

Alessandro Della Ciaia (c. 1605-c. 1670) was a nobleman born in Siena, Italy. He was not a professional musician, but composed music as an amateur. Nevertheless, he published three volumes of his compositions: a collection of madrigals, a collection of lamenti for voice and continuo and in 1666 the Sacri modulatus, from which comes his work Lamentatio Virginis in depositione Filii de cruce (Lament of the Virgin at the deposition from the cross of her son).