Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/A/Abbatini, Antonio Maria

by John Weeks Moore

Abbatini, Antonio Maria, was born at Tiferno, in the year 1605. He was chapel master of the churches of St. John of Lateran, and of Santa Maria Maggiore at Rome. He wrote many motets, the scientific construction of which procured him a well-merited reputation. He was the master of the celebrated Abb� Stephani, of the Venetian school.