Antonio Quintavalle

Antonio Quintavalle (c. 1665) was an Italian opera composer. Biography He was probably born in Rome, where the beginning of his activity is documented starting from 1688; on 6 February of that year, in fact, his name appears among the members of the Congregation of Musicians of Rome, an association of musicians active in the city, which the following year commissioned him to play the organ on the occasion of the feast of Saint Cecilia and in December 1690 for the litanies sung monthly in the church of S. Carlo ai Catinari. In 1688 his oratorio Iefte (libretto by Pietro Giubilei), was performed at the Roman Seminary. He composed a cantata for three voices (Marte, Europa, Amore) in two parts (text by Carlo Sigismondo Capece), performed in September 1689 for a fencing academy of the master Francesco Antonio Marcelli. Later, his oratorio Sacri amoris triumphus in conversion S Augustini Hipponensis Episcopi was performed in Lent 1694 at the SS. Crocifisso di S. Marcello. He continued his musical activity away from Rome. He collaborated with Antonio Caldara and Carlo Francesco Pollarolo on the opera L’oracolo in sogno (libretto by Francesco Silvani), performed in Mantua in June 1699. In