Antonio Nola (1642-after 1715) was a Neapolitan composer of whom little biographical information or music survives.A large amount of manuscript sacred music by Nola is held in the Girolamini Library He is to be distinguished from the better known

Giovanni Domenico da Nola Giovanni Domenico da Nola (also Nolla) (c. 1510–1520May 1592) was an Italian composer and poet of the Renaissance. He was born in the town of Nola, Italy. He was a founding member of the ''Accademia dei Sereni'' in 1546–1547, where he knew Lu ...

born 130 years earlier (died 1592). Antonio Nola was a minor figure among the Neapolitan composers who collaborated with musicians from the church of the Girolamini, which included

Giovanni Maria Trabaci Giovanni Maria Trabaci (ca. 1575 – 31 December 1647) was an Italian composer and organist. He was a prolific composer, with some 300 surviving works preserved in more than 10 publications; he was especially important for his keyboard music. B ...

Scipione Dentice Scipione Dentice (29 January 1560 – 21 April 1633) was a Neapolitan keyboard composer. He is to be distinguished from his colleague and exact contemporary Scipione Stella, a member of Carlo Gesualdo's circle. He is also to be distinguished f ...

(nephew of

Fabrizio Dentice Fabrizio Dentice (also Fabricio, Fabritio) (1539 in Naples – 24 February 1581 in Naples) was an Italian composer and virtuoso lute and viol player. Fabrizio was the son of Luigi Dentice (1510–1566) who served the powerful Sanseverino family ...

Giovanni Maria Sabino Giovanni Maria Sabino (30 June 1588 April 1649) was an Italian composer, organist and teacher. Sabino was born in Turi, into a family of musicians and composers. He was the brother of Antonio Sabino and uncle of Francesco Sabino. At the age o ...

Giovanni Salvatore Giovanni Salvatore (ca.1620ca.1688) was a Neapolitan composer and organist. Salvatore was born in Castelvenere. He is thought to have studied under Giovanni Maria Sabino and Erasmo di Bartolo at the Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini, Nap ...

, master of the royal chapel Filippo Coppola and, foremost among them,

Erasmo di Bartolo Erasmo Bartoli Filippino, or Erasmo di Bartolo, called padre Raimo (1606–1656), was an Italian priest, composer, and teacher at the conservatories in Naples.Music in seventeenth-century Naples: Francesco Provenzale (1624–1704) Dinko Fabris - ...

("Padre Raimo") author of the monumental ''Mottetti per le quarant' ore''. His only recorded work, in comparison with the Magnificat a 5 composed in the same year by his colleague

Francesco Provenzale Francesco Provenzale (25 September 1632 – 6 September 1704) was an Italian Baroque composer and teacher. He is considered the founder of the Neapolitan school of opera. Notably Provenzale was the teacher of famed castrato 'il cavaliere ...

(1624–1704), shows a less sophisticated compositional level.

Recording

* Magnificat a 5 voci con violini (1669) 13'25" on Magnificat anima mea. Il Culto Mariano e l'Oratorio Filippino nella Napoli del'600

Cappella della Pietà de' Turchini Cappella Neapolitana is an early music ensemble based in Naples and dedicated to the recovery of Neapolitan musical heritage, primarily from the baroque era. The Cappella Neapolitana was founded in 2016 by the musicologist and conductor Antonio F ...

dir. Antonio Florio Symphonia 95138 1996.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Nola, Antonio 1642 births 18th-century deaths 17th-century Italian composers 18th-century Italian composers Italian male composers Year of death unknown 17th-century male musicians