TOMADINI, JACOPO. – Composer, b. in Cividale on 24 Aug. 1820, d. there on 21 Jan. 1883.
Ordained a priest in 1846, he was a canon of the collegiate church in his native town. In music, he attained an eminent position through his profound classical knowledge, pure inspiration, and nobility of form. Out of modesty, he declined honorary positions in other Italian and foreign cities, living in obscurity an austere life devoted solely to art. He wrote a great number of sacred compositions, which won widespread acclaim. The oratorio La Risurrezione di Cristo was a genuine revelation, to the point that it could rival Haydn and Handel.
BIBL.: C. Podrecca, Mons. T. T. e la sua musica sacra, Cividale 1883; L. Pistorelli, I. T. e la sua «Risurrezione di Cristo», in Riv. Mus. It., 6 (1899), pp. 762 ff.; id., Il «Miserere in mi minore» di I. T., ibid., 7 (1900), p. 784 ff. Silverio Mattei