Giovanni Bononcini

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Giovanni Battista Bononcini (18 July, 1672 - 9 July, 1750) was an Italian Baroque composer and cellist, and came from a family of musicians. His father, Giovanni Maria Bononcini, was a violinist and composer. Giovanni Battista Bononcini used his knowledge of the lyrical qualities of the cello coupled with the beautiful singing tones of the violin to create notable instrumental works of which "XII Sonatas for the Chamber" is a remarkable example as well as his exciting operas in Italy and England. He chose the vehicle of music to create that harmony and cooperation wihin his compositions to better display to the world about the concepts of reconciliation and peace.

Biography

Bononcini the younger was born in Modena.

His works include a number of operas, masses, and a funeral anthem for th e Duke of Marlborough. One of his operas was Serse, later adapted by George Frideric Handel. He played the cello and published his earliest works for this instrument in 1685 at Bologna.

Bononcini was for a time 'maestro di cappella' at San Giovanni in Monte and afterwards worked in Milan, Rome, Vienna, Berlin, and from 1720 to 1732, in London, where he rivaled Handel for a time. He left after charges of plagiarism were proven against him, and died in poverty in Vienna. His younger brother, Antonio Maria Bononcini, was also a composer.

Operas

  • Il trionfo di Camilla (1696)
  • Astarto (1720)
  • L'odio e l'amore (1721)
  • Griselda (1722)
  • Erminia (1723)
  • Astianatte (1727)

Other works

  • Messe brevi (1688)
  • Divertimenti da camera (1722)
  • XII Sonatas for the Chamber (1732)
  • Lidio, schernito amante (cantata)

References
ISBN links support NWE through referral fees

  • Klenz, William, "Giovanni Maria Bononcini of Modena, a chapter in Baroque instrumental music", Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1962. OCLC 294980
  • Mattax, Charlotte; Bononcini, Giovanni, "Giovanni Bononcini's cantata Il lamento d'Olimpia: a figured bass realization", thesis/dissertation/manuscript, 1982. OCLC 38641419
  • Paton, John Glenn, "26 Italian songs and areais: an authoritative edition based on authentic sources", Van Nuys, CA: Alfred Publishing Co., 1991. ISBN 0-882-84490-3

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