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Jan 26, 1595 Città di Castello, Umbria, Italy Died on 01 Jan 0001 (aged 1594)
Italian composer
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About Antonio Maria Abbatini
- Antonio Maria Abbatini (26 January 1595, or 1609 or 1610 – ? after 15 March 1679, or 1677) 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 and 1646, 1649 to 1657, and 1672 to 1677.
- 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.
