Carlo Abbate

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Carlo Abbate (* around 1600 in Genoa ; † after 1640) was an Italian music theorist, composer and Franciscan priest.

Life

Carlo Abbate was in the service of Prince Cardinal Franz Seraph von Dietrichstein . He was its chaplain and also served as a musician. From 1629 he was a music teacher at the Loreto seminary in Nikolsburg . Previously, he held the same position in St. Oslowan . On June 13, 1632, he left Nikolsburg probably as a result of a dispute with a superior and went back to Italy.

Works (selection)

  • Regulae contrapuncti excerptae ex operibus Zerlini et aliorum ad breviorem tyronum instructionem accommodate. He probably used this textbook in his music lessons. He used existing rules and excerpts from the works of Gioseffo Zarlino . Although the work has a Latin title, it is written in Italian. He wrote the work as a counterpoint textbook for his seminary students.

literature

  • Bohn, Emil (1890). The musical manuscripts of the 16th and 17th Breslau: Georg Olms
  • Grove, George (1980). The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians . London: Macmillan Publishers. Page 4. ISBN 9781561591749
  • Karol Berger:  Abbate, Carlo. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 1 (Aagard - Baez). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 1999, ISBN 3-7618-1111-X  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Karol Berger: Abbate, Carlo. In: https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com . Oxford University Press, January 20, 2001, accessed July 27, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Abbate, Carlo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian music theorist, composer and Franciscan priest
DATE OF BIRTH around 1600
PLACE OF BIRTH Genoa
DATE OF DEATH after 1640