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Anna Bon
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Anna Bon (ca.1739-?) was an Italian composer and performer. Her parents were both involved in music and traveled internationally; her father was the Bolognese artist Girolamo Bon, a librettist and scenographer, and her mother was the singer Rosa Ruvinetti Bon. Anna was born in Russia. On March 8, 1743, at the age of four, she was admitted to the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice as a student; that she had a surname indicates that she was not a foundling as were most of the Pièta wards, but a tuition-paying pupil (figlia de spesi). She studied with the maestra di viola, Candida della Pièta (who herself had been admitted into the coro in 1707). By 1756, Anna rejoined her parents in Bayreuth where they were in the service of Margrave Friedrich of Brandenburg Kulmbach; she held the new post of 'chamber music virtuosa' at the court, and dedicated her six op. 1 flute sonatas, published in Nürnberg in 1756, to Friedrich.[1] From the frontispiece we learn that she composed them at the age of sixteen. In 1762 the family moved to the Esterházy court at Eisenstadt, where Anna remained until at least 1765. She dedicated the published set of six harpsichord sonatas, op. 2 (1757), to Ernestina Augusta Sophia, Princess of Saxe-Weimar, and the set of six divertimenti (trio sonatas), op. 3 (1759), to Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria. In 1767, when Anna lived in Hildburghausen, Thuringia, with her husband, a singer named Mongeri, details of her story are lost to history. User-contributed
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Divertimento in D Minor, Op. 3 No. 3: III. Presto
10326 Harpsichord Sonatas, Op. 2: No. 2 in B-Flat Major
923Flute Sonata in G Minor, Op. 1 No. 5: I. Allegro (Flötensonate Nr. 5 in G-Moll/Sonate pour flûte nº 5 en sol mineur)
764Keyboard Sonata in B Minor, Op. 2 No. 5: I. Allegro moderato
685Flute Sonata in G Minor, Op. 1 No. 5: II. Andante staccato (Flötensonate Nr. 5 in G-Moll/Sonate pour flûte nº 5 en sol mineur)
676Flute Sonata No. 2 in F Major, Op. 1: I. Largo
667Flute Sonata in G Minor, Op. 1 No. 5: III. Allegro (Flötensonate Nr. 5 in G-Moll/Sonate pour flûte nº 5 en sol mineur)
608Keyboard Sonata in B Minor, Op. 2 No. 5: III. Allegro
569Sonata In G Minor, Op .1 No. 5: I. Allegro
5510Flute Sonata in G Major No. 6, Op. 1: III. Minuetto con variazioni - Tema (Recomposed by Luca Astolfoni Fossi)
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Bon: Divertimento in D Minor, Op. 3 No. 3
ANNA BON: Sei Sonate da Camera per il Flauto Traversiere
Bon: Flute Sonatas, Op. 1
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Diamonds
The Baroque Flute
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The sky between us
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Bon: 6 Flute Trios, Op. 3
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ANNA BON: Sonatas para Flauta Op. 1
Piano Sonata Op. 2 No 4
Piano Sonata Op. 2 No. 3 in F major (Live)
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Locatelli, Barsanti, Ferrandini, Bon: Baroque Flute Sonatas
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Anna Bon: Sei Sonate Per Flauto, Fagotto E Basso Op.1