Antonio Maria Abbatini

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Antonio Maria Abbatini (born January 26, 1595 or around 1600 in Città di Castello ; † probably in August 1679 (or 1677) there) was an Italian conductor and composer .

Life

Abbatini was a student of his uncle Lorenzo Abbatini, who was Kapellmeister at the cathedral in his hometown, and possibly of Giovanni Bernardino Nanino . After his uncle's death, Antonio Maria took over his office for a short time before joining the Seminario Romano , where he was later appointed conductor. From 1626 to 1628 Abbatini was maestro di cappella at the Lateran basilica in Rome. Then he returned to his hometown. In 1632 he received the title of Kapellmeister at Orvieto Cathedral. From 1635 to 1640 he worked again in his hometown. From 1640 he was Kapellmeister at the Basilica Santa Maria Maggiore , where he was fired in January 1646, possibly because of a dispute. He then went to San Lorenzo in Damaso as Kapellmeister . In May 1649 he was named again as Kapellmeister at Santa Maria Maggiore. In January 1657 he went to the pilgrimage basilica in Loreto , but is again referred to Santa Maria Maggiore in 1672, where he stayed until 1677. In that year he retired to his hometown, where he held the position of Kapellmeister until his death in 1679.

He created operas and church choral works and is one of the main representatives of the high baroque monumental style. His cantata Il pianto di Rodomonte is considered a preliminary form of opera. With Abbatini's “commedia per musica” Dal male il bene from 1654, he laid the foundation for a development that culminated in opera buffa in the 18th century . In addition to his musical works, he wrote several textbooks on music. He supported Athanasius Kircher in his Musurgia Universalis. For this he composes, among other things, an O vos omnes to 6 voices, over 7 bars, which serves as a pattern for expressing lamentation and pain.

Works

  • Dal male il bene (“Sorrow becomes happiness”), musical comedy in three acts, together with Marco Marazzoli (2nd act). Libretto by Giulio and Giacomo Rospigliosi, after P. Calderon de la Barca. First performance May 16, 1654 in Rome, Palazzo Barberini , for the wedding of Matteo Barberini, Principe di Palestrina, with Olimpia Giustiniani, manuscript Bologna. OCLC 37107367
  • Ione , opera in three acts. Libretto by Antonio Draghi. Rome 1666, tradition at Musikfreunde Wien. OCLC 43712122
  • La comica del cielo ò vero la Baltasara , musical comedy in three acts. Libretto by Giulio Rospigliosi . First performed January 5, 1668 at the Palazzo Pallavicini Rospigliosi in Rome, OCLC 56637783
  • Autogi , Bologna, Cat. 1, 188: 1 Codex with 14 treatises on music theory, written in the years 1663–1668.
  • Missa sexdecim voc. concinenda nunc primum , Rome 1627, OCLC 801991118
  • II Pianto di Rodomonte del.. . to date all stampe da Pietro Ant. Ubaldoni , Orvieto 1633
  • Il 6. libro de sacre Canzoni a 2, 3, 4 e 5 voci , Rome 1653
  • Antifone a 12 Bassi, e 12 Tenori reali , 1661, Rome 1677
  • Inveni David, Offertorium a 4 voci , manuscript, Bologna, cat. 2, 380.
  • In che da il cercar, Canto per solo Tenore col Bc. in Autori romani di musica volgare , manuscript, Bologna, cat. 3, 197.
  • Dilatatae sunt, 2 voc. et Bc. ex 1649 , in a collection by Winterfeld, manuscript in the Düben collection, Uppsala
  • Amante dubbioro, a sopr. C. Bc. , 1662, manuscript in Modena.
  • 1 Cantata per voce sola col B. , as a manuscript in Modena
  • Dulcissima Virgo á 2 and Alma parens á 3 v. , in Berretti: Scelta di Mot. , 1643.
  • Honorem date deodorant 3 v. and Bona Jesu 3 v. in Florido: Concentus sacras , 1643.
  • Congratulamini 2 v. and Admirabile 2 v. Chr. in Florido: Has alteras sacr. cant. , 1645.
  • Linguae ardentes 2 v. in Florido 1650.
  • Dilatatae sunt á 2 in Geertsom: Scelta de Motetti , 1656.
  • Further works are preserved in the manuscript in the church archives of San Giovanni di Laterano, Santa Maria Maggiore and his other places of activity

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Athanasius Kircher: Musurgia universalis sive ars magna consoni et dissoni in X. libros digesta; Vol. 1: Quà Universa Sonorum doctrina, & Philosophia, Musicaeque tam Theoricae, quam practicae scientia, summa varietate traditur ... Retrieved February 20, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Abbatini, Antonio Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian composer
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1595 or around 1600
PLACE OF BIRTH Città di Castello
DATE OF DEATH around 1679
Place of death Città di Castello