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Cataldo Amodei (Composer)

Born: 6th May 1649, Sciacca, Italy

Died: 13th July 1693, Naples, Italy

Nationality: Italian

Cataldo Vito Amodei was an Italian composer of the mid-Baroque period who spent his career in Naples. His cantatas were important predecessors to the active cantata production of 18th-century Naples and he stands with the elder Francesco Provenzale and younger Alessandro Scarlatti as among the principal cantata composers. Other surviving works include a book of motets dedicated to Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor; a serenata; two pastorales; two psalms; and four oratorios, which were important contributions to their genre.

Amodei held posts at various musical institutions, maestro del coro (choirmaster) at San Paolo Maggiore and two prestigious conservatories: the Conservatorio di Sant'Onofrio a Porta Capuana (1680/81–1688) and second choirmaster at Conservatorio Santa Maria di Loreto (1687–1689). His virtuosic 1685 book of cantatas, Cantate, Op.

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