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Vincenzo Amato
1+ albums
17th centuryitalian
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Vincenzo Amato (1629-1670) was one of the most important Sicilian composers of his time, priest, chapel master in Palermo cathedral from 1665 to his death, and uncle of Alessandro Scarlatti and perhaps his first teacher. Two of his early compositions, published in Palermo and considered lost, have reappeared as unique copies in the collection of the Cathedral Museum in Mdina, Malta and from among the anonymous manuscripts, Ms 201 has been identified as the earliest, complete, and authentic score of Amato’s popular “Passio secundum Johannem,” used untilrecently in the liturgy of Sicilian chapels but performed from late incomplete copies with the polyphonic sections for the “Turba” made up by a nineteenth-century composer. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.