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Girolamo Abos
Maltese-Italian composer

Girolamo Abos

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Maltese-Italian composer
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Place of birth
Valletta, Malta
Place of death
Naples, Metropolitan city of Naples, Campania, Italy
Age
44 years
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Biography

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.

List of operas composed by Abos

TitleGenreSub­divisionsLibrettoPremière datePlace, theatre
Zingare Le due zingare similiopera buffaPalomba Antonio Palomba1742 1742Naples, Teatro Nuovo
Geloso Il gelosocommediaPalomba Antonio Palomba
1743-04 spring 1743Naples, Teatro dei Fiorentini
Furberie Le furberie di Spillettocommedia per musica3 acts(Première libretto, in Italian)1744-02 Carnival 1744Florence, Teatro del Cocomero
Serba La serva padronaopera buffaFederico Gennaro Antonio Federico
1744-02 Carnival 1744Naples
Moglie La moglie gelosacommediaPalomba Antonio Palomba
1745 1745Naples, Teatro dei Fiorentini
Adriano Adriano in Siriadramma per musicaMetastasio Pietro Metastasio
1746-02 Carnival 1746Florence, Teatro della Pergola
Artaserse Artasersedramma per musica3 actsMetastasio Pietro Metastasio
(Première libretto, in Italian)
1746 1746Venice, Teatro di San Giovanni Crisostomo)
Pelopida Pelopidadramma per musica3 actsRoccaforte Gaetano Roccaforte
(Première libretto, in Italian)
1747-02 Carnival 1747Rome, Teatro Argentina
Alessandro Alessandro nelle Indiedramma per musica3 actsMetastasio Pietro Metastasio
(Première libretto, in Italian)
1747-07 July 1747Ancona, Teatro La Fenice
Arianna Arianna e Teseodramma per musica3 actsPariati Pietro Pariati
(Première libretto, in Italian)
1748-12-26 26 December 1748Rome, Teatro delle Dame
Tito Tito Manliodramma per musicaRoccaforte Gaetano Roccaforte
1751-05-30 30 May 1751Naples, Teatro San Carlo
Erifile Erifiledramma per musica3 actsNeri Giovanni Battista Neri
(Première libretto, in Italian)
1752-02 Carnival 1752Rome, Teatro delle Dame
Lucio Lucio Vero o sia Il Vologesoopera seriaZeno Apostolo Zeno
1752-12-18 18 December 1752Naples, Teatro San Carlo
Medo Il Medodramma per musicaFrugoni Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni
1753-00 1753Turin, Teatro Regio
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