Filippo Amadei was an Italian composer from Reggio Emilia

Reggio Emilia

Reggio Emilia is an affluent city in northern Italy, in the Emilia-Romagna region. It has about 170,000 inhabitants and is the main comune of the Province of Reggio Emilia....

, who was active in Rome and London.

He appears to have worked as composer of cantatas oratorios and as a cellist for Cardinal Ottoboni from 1690 to 1711, the year of his oratorio Teodosio il giovane (1711), then again 1723-1729.

From 1719-1722 he was in London where he wrote the first act of the opera Muzio Scevola

Muzio Scevola

Muzio Scevola is an opera in three acts about Gaius Mucius Scaevola. The Italian-language libretto was by Paolo Antonio Rolli, adapted from a text by Silvio Stampiglia. The music for the first act was composed by Filippo Amadei , the second act by Giovanni Battista Bononcini, and the third by...

(1721), with the second act by Giovanni Bononcini and the third by George Frideric Handel

George Frideric Handel

George Frideric Handel was a German-British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos. Handel was born in 1685, in a family indifferent to music...

Works

Oratorio:

• Teodosio il giovane Rome, 1711 on the story of Byzantine emperor Theodosius II
  Theodosius II
  Theodosius II , commonly surnamed Theodosius the Younger, or Theodosius the Calligrapher, was Byzantine Emperor from 408 to 450. He is mostly known for promulgating the Theodosian law code, and for the construction of the Theodosian Walls of Constantinople...
  
  (401-450)

Operas

• Arsace London, Royal Academy of Music, 1st Feb. 1721.
• Muzio Scevola Act 1, London, Royal Academy of Music, 15 April 1721.