Girolamo Abos

Girolamo Abos, last name also given Avos or d'Avossa and baptized Geronimo Abos (November 16, 1715 – May 1760), was a Maltese-Italian composer of both operas and church music.

Born in Valletta, Malta, 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. He wrote 14 operas for the opera houses in Naples, Rome, and London, of which "Tito Manlio" (Naples, 1751) was most successful. After 1758 he composed a good deal of church music, including seven masses and several litanies. He died in Naples.

List of operas composed by Abos

*"Le due zingare simili" (1742, Naples)
*"Le furbiere di Spilletto" (1744, Florence)
*"La serva padrona" (1744, Naples)
*"La moglie gelosa" (1745, Naples)
*"Artaserse" (1746, Venice)
*"Pelopida" (1747, Rome)
*"Alessandro nelle Indie" (1747, Ancona)
*"Arianna e Teseo" (1748, Rome)
*"Adriano in Siria" (1750, Rome)
*"Tito Manlio" (1751, Naples)
*"Erifile" (1752, Rome)
*"Lucio Vero o sia Il vologeso" (1752, Naples)
*"Medo" (?, Turin)
*"Andromeda" (?)

References

*cite encyclopedia | title = Abos, Girolamo | encyclopedia = Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians | editor = Nicolas Slonimsky | edition = 5th edition | year = 1958 | pages = pp. 3–4 | url = http://www.archive.org/details/bakersbiographic005877mbp