Antonio Maria Abbatini
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Antonio Maria Abbatini
(b Città di Castello, 1609-10; d there, c1678). Italian composer. He held several positions as maestro di cappella, mainly in Rome (notably at St John Lateran and S Maria Maggiore) but also at Orvieto Cathedral and the Santa Casa, Loreto. His most important work is the comic opera Dal male il bene (1653 - Acts 1 and 3; Act 2 by Marazzoli), which includes much secco recitative and two early ensemble finales. He wrote two further operas, but his output consisted mainly of sacred music. Most of the surviving works are small-scale concertato sacre canzoni, but he also cultivated the massive polychoral style.
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Antonio Maria Abbatini
Antonio Maria Abbatini (26 January 1595 – ? after 15 March 1679) was an Italian composer, active mainly in Rome.
Abbatini was born in Città di Castello.[1] 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[2]. 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].
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- Nicolas Slonimsky, ed. (1958). "Abbatini, Antonio Maria". Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (5th edition ed.). pp. p. 2. http://www.archive.org/details/bakersbiographic005877mbp.
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- 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.
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- ^ Randel, Don Michael, editor (1996). "Antonio Maria Abbatini". The Harvard biographical dictionary of music. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press. pp. 1. ISBN 0-674-37299-9.
- ^ Garvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Abatini, Antonio Maria, 1999
- ^ Garvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Abatini, Antonio Maria, 1999
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