Alessandro Longo
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Alessandro Longo (December 31, 1864, Amantea (Cosenza) – November 3, 1945, Naples) was an Italian composer and musicologist.
After studying at the Naples Conservatory, he began teaching piano at his alma mater in 1887 and eventually became its director in 1944.
As a composer, he successfully combined the German method of instrumental writing with the Italian vocal tradition.
Today, Longo is mainly remembered for compiling a comprehensive catalog of the keyboard works of Domenico Scarlatti. For many years, Scarlatti's keyboard sonatas were conventionally identified by their Longo numbers, but these were later superseded by those found in Ralph Kirkpatrick's catalog.
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