Girolamo Abos (1715-1760) - Magnificat à 4:o Concertato con Strum.ti

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Composer: Girolamo Abos (1715-1760)
Work: Magnificat à 4:o Concertato con Strum.ti
Performers: Zoe Brοwn (soprano); Myriam Arbοuz (alto); George Pοοley (tenor); Mauro Bοrgiοni (bass);
Die Kölnеr Akademie; Michael Alexander Willеns (conductor)

Drawing: Thomas Bowles (1707-1753) - A Perspective View of the Town and Fortifications of Malta
HD image: https://flic.kr/p/2quqSmS

Further info: https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/cpo/detail/-/art/girolamo-abos-magnificat/hnum/7136654
Listen free: https://open.spotify.com/album/5mMA7LSy3G0SOvcvjInYf4

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Girolamo (Matteo) Abos [Abbos, Abosso, Avos, Avossa, Avosso, D'Avossa, Habos]
(Valetta, 16 November 1715 - Naples, October 1760)

Maltese composer and teacher. Born into a musical family, his grandfather, who was French, settled in Malta in 1661. Girolamo Abos was sent to Naples at the age of 14 to study at the Conservatorio dei Poveri di Gesù under Gaetano Greco, Francesco Durante and Gerolimo Ferrara. His first opera for Naples was 'Le due zingare simili', an opera buffa staged at the Teatro Nuovo in 1742. The same year he was appointed deputy to maestro di cappella Ignazio Prota at the Conservatorio di Sant’Onofrio a Porta Capuana in a post he held until his death. On 29 May 1752 he married Angela Maria Gauttier, by whom he had two children. In 1754 he also became secondo maestro at the conservatory Pietà dei Turchini, but retired from the post on 11 July 1759 and was succeeded by Pasquale Cafaro. He also occasionally served as maestro di cappella at several important Neapolitan churches. As a composer, he wrote at least 16 operas (mostly seria), many of which were performed internationally. In addition he composed at least one symphony (1735) and numerous sacred works, among which the Stabat mater (1758) is the best known. He was not related to the composer active in Naples, Giuseppe Avossa (1708-1796), despite some mistaken attributions exist among manuscript copies.