Girolamo Abos, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Maltese-Italian composer
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Place of Birth: Valletta, Malta
About 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.
- 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.
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