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GIROLAMO ABOS (1715-1760)
"Stabat Mater" for two sopranos, alto, strings, and basso continuo
1. Stabat Mater
2. Cujus Animam
Performed by Stradivaria
Featuring Isabelle Desrochers, Isabelle Poulenard, sopranos
Martin Oro, alto
Directed by Daniel Poulenard
*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, 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.
GIROLAMO ABOS (1715-1760)
"Stabat Mater" for two sopranos, alto, strings, and basso continuo
1. Stabat Mater
2. Cujus Animam
Performed by Stradivaria
Featuring Isabelle Desrochers, Isabelle Poulenard, sopranos
Martin Oro, alto
Directed by Daniel Poulenard
*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, 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.
