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.

List of operas composed by Abos

TitleGenreSub­divisionsLibrettoPremière datePlace, theatre
Le due zingare simili opera buffa Antonio Palomba 1742Naples, Teatro Nuovo
Il gelosocommedia Antonio Palomba
spring 1743Naples, Teatro dei Fiorentini
Le furberie di Spillettocommedia per musica3 acts(Première libretto, in Italian) Carnival 1744Florence, Teatro del Cocomero
La serva padronaopera buffa Gennaro Antonio Federico
Carnival 1744Naples
La moglie gelosacommedia Antonio Palomba
1745Naples, Teatro dei Fiorentini
Adriano in Siriadramma per musica Pietro Metastasio
Carnival 1746Florence, Teatro della Pergola
Artasersedramma per musica3 acts Pietro Metastasio
(Première libretto, in Italian)
1746Venice, Teatro di San Giovanni Crisostomo)
Pelopida dramma per musica3 acts Gaetano Roccaforte
(Première libretto, in Italian)
Carnival 1747Rome, Teatro Argentina
Alessandro nelle Indiedramma per musica3 acts Pietro Metastasio
(Première libretto, in Italian)
July 1747Ancona, Teatro La Fenice
Arianna e Teseodramma per musica3 acts Pietro Pariati
(Première libretto, in Italian)
26 December 1748Rome, Teatro delle Dame
Tito Manliodramma per musica Gaetano Roccaforte
30 May 1751Naples, Teatro San Carlo
Erifiledramma per musica3 acts Giovanni Battista Neri
(Première libretto, in Italian)
Carnival 1752Rome, Teatro delle Dame
Lucio Vero o sia Il Vologesoopera seria Apostolo Zeno
18 December 1752Naples, Teatro San Carlo
Il Medodramma per musica Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni
1753Turin, Teatro Regio

References

  • Stabat Mater Gerolamo Abos ed. Joseph Vella Bondin Recent Researches in the Music of the Classical Era, 68, A-R Editions, Inc., Middleton, Wisconsin 2003, ISBN 978-0-89579-531-1.
  • Nicolas Slonimsky, ed. (1958). "Abos, Girolamo". Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (5th ed.). pp. 3–4.
  • Hanns-Bertold Dietz, Joseph Vella Bondin, "Abos, Girolamo ", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Second Edition (London: Macmillan, 2001). ISBN 0-333-60800-3.


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