Girolamo Abos

Background

Girolamo was born on November 16, 1715, in Valletta, Malta.

Career

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.

Works

• commedia

  • Il geloso

    (Naples, Teatro dei Fiorentini)

    1743

• dramma per musica

  • Adriano in Siria

    (Florence, Teatro della Pergola)

    1746

• music

  • Le furberie di Spilletto

    (Florence, Teatro del Cocomero)

    1744

• opera buffa

  • Le due zingare simili

    (Naples, Teatro Nuovo)

    1742

Connections

Father:

Gian Tommaso Abos

Mother:

Rosa Farrugia