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. 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 1677Garvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians,
Abatini, Antonio Maria, 1999 . 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 Garvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians,
Abatini, Antonio Maria, 1999 .
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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.
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