Girolamo Abos
Girolamo Abos, last name also given Avos or d'Avossa and baptized Geronimo Abos (16 November 1715 – May 1760), was a Maltese-Italian composer of both operas and church music.
Born in Valletta, Malta, son of Gian Tommaso Abos, whose father was a Frenchman from Castellane and Rosa Farrugia, Abos studied under Leonardo Leo and Francesco Durante in Naples. In 1756, he became Maestro al Cembalo (Director of Music) at the Italian Theatre in London. In 1758 he returned to Italy as a teacher at the Conservatorio della Pietà de' Turchini in Naples, where Giovanni Paisiello was one of his pupils [citation needed]. He wrote fourteen operas for the opera houses in Naples, Rome, and London, of which Tito Manlio (Naples, 1751) was the most successful. After 1758 he composed a good deal of church music, including seven masses and several litanies. He died in Naples. Many of his sacred works, oratorios, and the opera Pelopida have been edited by the Australian musicologist and conductor Richard Divall, and are freely available.
List of operas composed by Abos
Title | Genre | Subdivisions | Libretto | Première date | Place, theatre |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Le due zingare simili | opera buffa | Antonio Palomba | 1742 | Naples, Teatro Nuovo | |
Il geloso | commedia | Antonio Palomba |
spring 1743 | Naples, Teatro dei Fiorentini | |
Le furberie di Spilletto | commedia per musica | 3 acts | (Première libretto, in Italian) | Carnival 1744 | Florence, Teatro del Cocomero |
La serva padrona | opera buffa | Gennaro Antonio Federico |
Carnival 1744 | Naples | |
La moglie gelosa | commedia | Antonio Palomba |
1745 | Naples, Teatro dei Fiorentini | |
Adriano in Siria | dramma per musica | Pietro Metastasio |
Carnival 1746 | Florence, Teatro della Pergola | |
Artaserse | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Pietro Metastasio (Première libretto, in Italian) |
1746 | Venice, Teatro di San Giovanni Crisostomo) |
Pelopida | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Gaetano Roccaforte (Première libretto, in Italian) |
Carnival 1747 | Rome, Teatro Argentina |
Alessandro nelle Indie | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Pietro Metastasio (Première libretto, in Italian) |
July 1747 | Ancona, Teatro La Fenice |
Arianna e Teseo | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Pietro Pariati (Première libretto, in Italian) |
26 December 1748 | Rome, Teatro delle Dame |
Tito Manlio | dramma per musica | Gaetano Roccaforte |
30 May 1751 | Naples, Teatro San Carlo | |
Erifile | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Giovanni Battista Neri (Première libretto, in Italian) |
Carnival 1752 | Rome, Teatro delle Dame |
Lucio Vero o sia Il Vologeso | opera seria | Apostolo Zeno |
18 December 1752 | Naples, Teatro San Carlo | |
Il Medo | dramma per musica | Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni |
1753 | Turin, Teatro Regio |
References
- Stabat Mater Gerolamo Abos ed. Joseph Vella Bondin Recent Researches in the Music of the Classical Era, 68, A-R Editions, Inc., Middleton, Wisconsin 2003, ISBN 978-0-89579-531-1.
- Nicolas Slonimsky, ed. (1958). "Abos, Girolamo". Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (5th ed.). pp. 3–4.
- Hanns-Bertold Dietz, Joseph Vella Bondin, "Abos, Girolamo ", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Second Edition (London: Macmillan, 2001). ISBN 0-333-60800-3.
External links
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/30px-Commons-logo.svg.png)
- Articles with short description
- Short description matches Wikidata
- Use dmy dates from December 2023
- All articles with unsourced statements
- Articles with unsourced statements from December 2023
- Commons category link from Wikidata
- Composers with IMSLP links
- Articles with International Music Score Library Project links
- Articles with ISNI identifiers
- Articles with VIAF identifiers
- Articles with WorldCat Entities identifiers
- Articles with BIBSYS identifiers
- Articles with BNE identifiers
- Articles with BNF identifiers
- Articles with BNFdata identifiers
- Articles with GND identifiers
- Articles with ICCU identifiers
- Articles with J9U identifiers
- Articles with KBR identifiers
- Articles with LCCN identifiers
- Articles with NLA identifiers
- Articles with NTA identifiers
- Articles with PortugalA identifiers
- Articles with CINII identifiers
- Articles with MusicBrainz identifiers
- Articles with DBI identifiers
- Articles with DTBIO identifiers
- Articles with RISM identifiers
- Articles with SNAC-ID identifiers
- Articles with SUDOC identifiers
- 1715 births
- 1760 deaths
- 18th-century Italian composers
- 18th-century Italian male musicians
- Classical composers of church music
- Italian Baroque composers
- Italian male classical composers
- Italian male opera composers
- Italian opera composers
- Maltese classical composers
- Musicians from Valletta
- People from Hospitaller Malta
- All stub articles
- Italian composer stubs
- Opera biography stubs