Pietro Simone Agostini

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Pietro Simone Agostini, also known as Piersimone Agostini or (Augustini), (Mombaroccio, c. 1635 - Parma, 1 October 1680), was an Italian composer . He made his debut as an opera player with Il Tolomeo. Drama de gl'Academici Imperturbabili represented in the Theatro di S. Apollinare di Venetia in the year 1658 . In December 1660 his name appears on a list of candidates for the post of chapel master at the cathedral of Urbino. However, he was excluded from the vote for not presenting the "memorial". The same document informs us that Agostini was a native of Monte Baroccio (today Mombaroccio) . He collaborated in the music of two operas staged in the Ducal theater in Milan: Queen Floridea (1669), with Francesco Rossi and Ludovico Busca, and L'Ippolita reina delle Amazzoni (1670), with Ludovico Busca and Pietro Andrea Ziani . In 1670 it was represented aGenoa in the Falcone theater his opera Eliogabolo (libretto Aurelio Aureli ). Later he settled in Rome . For Cardinal Flavio Chigi he composed L'Adalinda , a work performed in the Chigi palace of Ariccia in autumn 1673, and a serenade to be sung in Siena in 1677. He was employed by the Pamphilj family as chapel master of Sant'Agnese in Agone from January 1675 to May 1679. For the Lent of the years 1674, 1676, 1678, 1679 he set to music four oratories based on the text of the barefoot Carmelite father Girolamo di San Carlo, prior of the convent of Siena. The music is lost, but the texts, in Latin, were published by the author in

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