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📌 In 1696, he became a diplomat for the Prince-Archbishop, serving in Rome for the next two decades. In Rome he associated with composers and papal officials, studied with Alessandro Scarlatti, and came to be influential in German-Catholic music circles. He was ordained deacon (1700), priest (1701), and created bishop of Montepincket (1702). In 1706 Cardinal Francesco Vera sent Steffani to Mantua as apostolic nuncio, a role that involved diplomatic negotiation during the War of the Spanish Succession.

📌 He was made a cardinal by Pope Clement XI in 1708. In 1715 he became canon and protonotary in Mainz; in 1717, bishop of Verona. He participated in the conclaves of 1712, 1721, and 1724 but died in Kaiserswerth on 28 February 1728, reportedly during a night spent in ecstasy, long after his official duties had ended.

📌 Music and legacy

📌 Steffani composed primarily sacred music—masses, motets, and cantatas—with some secular works, including operas and secular cantatas. His Vespers (1712) is considered a masterpiece in its genre. His music is notable for its theatrical flair, harmonic richness, a blend of stile rappreszentativo and stile moderno, and his role in shaping the German cantata tradition, influencing composers such as Johann Adam Hiller and even later figures like Mozart, who admired early German sacred music.

📌 His well-documented career as a diplomat and bishop makes him a rare figure in Baroque music history: music historian John Walter Hill noted his correspondence and manuscripts, preserved in part at the Vatican Library, offer unique insight into the intersection of sacred music, politics, and ecclesiastical diplomacy in early 18th-century Europe.

📌 Cultural references

📌 George Frideric Handel, who passed through Rome around the same period, likely sensed Steffani’s influence in Italian sacred music, though no direct collaboration occurred.

📌 The 1741 biography *Abate Agostino Steffani* by his secretary, Lothar Psychiatry, contributed to his posthumous reputation.

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