Giovanni Battista Bononcini

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The Bononcini family were string players and composers with an established reputation. Giovanni Maria Bononcini (1642-78, the father) studied the violin and composition, and his own trio sonatas are considered important precursors of Corelli's op 1-4. His musical treatise - Musico prattico - circulated widely and influenced such later writers as J.G. Walther and Mattheson. He also left cantatas, a volume of madrigals and a later volume of trios. Giovanni Battista Bononcini was born in Modena, Italy, in 1670, the eldest and most successful of three sons; he died Vienna in 1747. Giovanni Battista trained as a cellist in Bologna, where he published two collections of trios (1685) and three of sinfonie (1685-7); he was a member of the Accademia Filarmonica, a musician at San Petronio (for which he composed two Lenten oratorios, 1687-8) and finally maestro di cappella at San Giovanni in Monte until 1689 - his four double-choir Masses, published in 1688 as op. 7, were composed for the services there. From Bologna he went to Milan to take up a commission from the Duke of Modena, and then to Rome - via Bologna, where he played in Cardinal Pamphili's orchestra. While in the service of Filippo Colonna in Rome, Bononcini collaborated with the poet Silvio Stampiglia on six serenatas, an oratorio and five operas, of which the last, Il trionfo di Camilla, was the highlight of the 1696-7 Naples Carnival. By this time his operas were in production throughout Italy, and his opera Camilla w

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GIGLI, Beniamino: London Recordings (1947-1949)

Amarilli (ISM, Lesne)

The Baroque Flute

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Colori d'Amore

Amarilli - Cantates pour alto solo / Sonates

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La Nemica d'Amore fatta Amante

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Baroque Music For Cello

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The Art of the Recorder

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Duetti

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Pergolesi: Stabat Mater, etc.

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The Swoon Collection II

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SARRI / GASPARINI / BONONCINI: Italian Intermezzi

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