Antonio Nola was a Neapolitan composer of whom little biographical information or music survives. He is to be distinguished from the better known Giovanni Domenico da Nola

Giovanni Domenico da Nola

Giovanni Domenico da Nola was an Italian composer and poet of the Renaissance.He was born in the town of Nola, Italy. He was a founding member of the Accademia dei Sereni in 1546-47, where he knew Luigi Dentice and Marchese della Terza, who was a patron of Orlando di Lasso...

 born 130 years earlier (?-1592).

Antonio Nola was a minor figure among the Neapolitan composers who collaborated with the Girolamini

Girolamini

Girolamini is the name of a Church and ecclesiastical complex in Naples, southern Italy. It is located directly across from the Cathedral of Naples on via Duomo....

, which included Giovanni Maria Trabaci

Giovanni Maria Trabaci

Giovanni Maria Trabaci was an Italian composer and organist. He was a prolific composer, with some 300 surviving works preserved in more than 10 prints, and was especially important for his keyboard music....

, Scipione Dentice

Scipione Dentice

Scipione Dentice was a Neapolitan keyboard composer. He is to be distinguished from his colleague and exact contemporary Scipione Stella , a member of Carlo Gesualdo's circle...

 (nephew of Fabrizio Dentice

Fabrizio Dentice

Fabrizio Dentice was an Italian composer and virtuoso lute and viol player.Fabrizio was the son of Luigi Dentice who served the powerful Sanseverino family and had a great reputation as a singer and lutenist...

), Giovanni Maria Sabino

Giovanni Maria Sabino

Giovanni Maria Sabino was an Italian composer, organist and teacher .G.M. Sabino was born in Turi, into a family of musicians and composers. He was brother of Antonio Sabino and uncle of Francesco Sabino. At the age of 14 he went to Naples to study music under Prospero Testa. From 1610-1613 he...

, Giovanni Salvatore

Giovanni Salvatore

Giovanni Salvatore was a Neapolitan composer and organist.Salvatore is thought to have studied under Giovanni Maria Sabino and Erasmo Bartoli at the Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini in Naples. He was first organist of Saints Severino and Sossio, then maestro di cappella at San Lorenzo Maggiore...

, master of the royal chapel Filippo Coppola

Filippo Coppola

Filippo Coppola was an Italian composer, maestro di cappella of the Chapel Royal of Naples from 1658 to 1680. With Manuel García Bustamante he composed, or rearranged a Spanish composer's composition, El robo de Proserpina y sentencia de Júpiter as Las faticas de Ceres in Naples in 1678.-References:...

 and, foremost among them, Erasmo di Bartolo ("Padre Raimo") author of the monumental Mottetti per le quarant' ore. His only recorded work, in comparison with the Magnificat a 5 composed in the same year by his colleague Francesco Provenzale

Francesco Provenzale

Francesco Provenzale was an Italian Baroque composer and teacher.Before the year 1658, there is virtually no record of Provenzale's existence, although it's thought that he studied at the Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini in Naples. The year of his entry into history is 1654, the year his...

 (1624–1704),‎ shows a less sophisticated compositional level.

Recording

• Magnificat a 5 voci con violini (1669) 13'25" on Magnificat anima mea. Il Culto Mariano e l'Oratorio Filippino nella Napoli del'600 Cappella della Pietà de' Turchini
  Cappella della Pietà de' Turchini
  The Cappella della Pietà de' Turchini is an early music ensemble based in Naples and dedicated to the recovery of Neapolitan musical heritage, primarily from the baroque era....
  
  dir. Antonio Florio Symphonia 95138 1996.