Antonio Maria Abbatini
Antonio Maria Abbatini (26 January 1595 – ? after 15 March 1679) was an Italian composer, active mainly in Rome.[1]
Abbatini was born in Città di Castello.[2] He served as maestro di cappella at the Basilica of St. John Lateran from 1626 to 1628; at the cathedral in Orvieto in 1633; and at Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome between 1640 to 1646, 1649 to 1657, and 1672 to 1677.[3] He composed a good deal of church music, and published three books of Masses, four of Psalms, various 24-part Antiphons (1630, 1638, 1677), five books of Motets (1635), and a dramatic cantata, Il Pianto di Rodomonte (1633). He also worked with Athanasius Kircher on the Musurgia Universalis.
In addition, he produced three operas: Dal male il bene (Rome, 1654; in collaboration with Marco Marazzoli), which was one of the earliest comic operas, and historically important as it introduced the final ensemble; Ione (Vienna, 1666); and La comica del cielo, also called La Baltasara (Rome, 1668).
Antonio Cesti was among his pupils.[3]
References
- ↑ Michael Walsh (ed.). Dictionary of Christian Biography. Continuum. p. 1. ISBN 0826452639.
- ↑ Randel, Don Michael, editor (1996). "Antonio Maria Abbatini". The Harvard biographical dictionary of music. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press. p. 1. ISBN 0-674-37299-9.
- 1 2 Garvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Abatini, Antonio Maria, 1999
- Nicolas Slonimsky, ed. (1958). "Abbatini, Antonio Maria". Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (5th ed.). p. 2.
Note
- This article or an earlier version incorporates text from the 3rd edition (1919) of Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, a publication now in the public domain.