Antonio Maria Abbatini

Antonio Maria Abbatini (c. 1595 – January 1680) 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, and thereafter successively at four other Roman churches. 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: "Del male in bene" (Rome, 1654), 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).

References

*cite encyclopedia | title = Abbatini, Antonio Maria | encyclopedia = Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians | editor = Nicolas Slonimsky | edition = 5th edition | year = 1958 | pages = p. 2 | url = 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."