Background

Natale was born on March 11, 1792, in Genoa, Liguria, Italy.

Education

Abbadia was already interested in music in his childhood. He took four years of music and singing lessons from composer and music educator Pietro Raimondi.T hen he studied in Genoa at Luigi Cerro. At the age of 12, he was an accomplished harpsichordist.

Career

Already as a 20 -year-old Abbadia composed in 1812 the three-act opera La Giannina di Pontieu at the Teatro di Sant'Agostino , ossia La villanella d'onore and in the same year the one-act opera buffa L'imbroglione ed il castigamatti and 1825 the Cantata Ettore e Andromaca . He composed another vespers and motets.

Works

• opera

  • L'imbroglione ed il castigamatti

    (one-act opera buffa.)

    1812

  • La Giannina di Pontieu

    (three-act opera. Genoa. )

    1812