Girolamo Abos, last name also given Avos or d'Avossa and baptized Geronimo Abos (16 November 1715 – May 1760), was a Maltese

Malta

Malta , officially known as the Republic of Malta , is a Southern European country consisting of an archipelago situated in the centre of the Mediterranean, south of Sicily, east of Tunisia and north of Libya, with Gibraltar to the west and Alexandria to the east.Malta covers just over in...

-Italian

Italy

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 composer of both opera

Opera

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s and church music

Church music

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.

Born in Valletta

Valletta

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, Malta, Abos studied under Leonardo Leo

Leonardo Leo

Leonardo Leo , more correctly Lionardo Oronzo Salvatore de Leo, was an Italian Baroque composer.-Biography:...

 and Francesco Durante

Francesco Durante

Francesco Durante was an Italian composer.He was born at Frattamaggiore, in the Kingdom of Two Sicilies, and at an early age he entered the Conservatorio dei poveri di Gesù Cristo, in Naples, where he received lessons from Gaetano Greco. Later he became a pupil of Alessandro Scarlatti at the...

 in Naples

Naples

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. In 1756, he became Maestro al Cembalo (Director of Music) at the Italian Theatre in London

London

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. In 1758 he returned to Italy as a teacher at the Conservatorio della Pietà de' Turchini in Naples, where Giovanni Paisiello

Giovanni Paisiello

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 was one of his pupils. He wrote 14 operas for the opera houses in Naples, Rome

Rome

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, and London, of which Tito Manlio (Naples, 1751) was most successful. After 1758 he composed a good deal of church music, including seven masses

Mass (music)

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 and several litanies

Litany

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. He died in Naples.

List of operas composed by Abos

• Le due zingare simili (1742, Naples)
• Le furbiere di Spilletto (1744, Florence
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  )
• La serva padrona (1744, Naples)
• La moglie gelosa (1745, Naples)
• Artaserse (1746, Venice
  Venice
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• Pelopida (1747, Rome)
• Alessandro nelle Indie (1747, Ancona
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• Arianna e Teseo (1748, Rome)
• Adriano in Siria (1750, Rome)
• Tito Manlio (1751, Naples)
• Erifile (1752, Rome)
• Lucio Vero o sia Il vologeso (1752, Naples)
• Medo (?, Turin
  Turin
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  )
• Andromeda (?)

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