Antonio Maria Bononcini
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cellist and composer, the younger brother of the better-known Giovanni Battista Bononcini
Giovanni Battista Bononcini
Giovanni Battista Bononcini was an Italian Baroque composer and cellist, one of a family of string players and composers. His father, Giovanni Maria Bononcini , was a violinist and a composer.-Biography:...
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Bononcini was born and died at Modena
Modena
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in Italy
Italy
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. Like his brother, he studied with Giovanni Paolo Colonna. Between 1690 and 1693, he played in the orchestra of Cardinal Pamphili
Benedetto Pamphili
Benedetto Pamphili was an Italian cardinal, patron of the arts, composer and librettist.-Life:...
. In 1698 he composed an allergory, La fama eroica, for performance in Rome. He worked for some years with his brother, and joined him in the court orchestra at Vienna
Vienna
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, where in 1705 he became Kappellmeister to the future Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI
Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor
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. In 1713 he returned to Italy, where he worked in Milan, Naples and Modena. In 1721 he became the maestro di cappella in Modena, where he remained for the rest of his life. In addition to his stage works, he composed over 40 cantatas (most of them for solo voice and harpsichord
Harpsichord
A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It produces sound by plucking a string when a key is pressed.In the narrow sense, "harpsichord" designates only the large wing-shaped instruments in which the strings are perpendicular to the keyboard...
), as well as sacred music including a Mass
Mass (music)
The Mass, a form of sacred musical composition, is a choral composition that sets the invariable portions of the Eucharistic liturgy to music...
in G minor, a Stabat Mater
Stabat Mater
Stabat Mater is a 13th-century Roman Catholic hymn to Mary. It has been variously attributed to the Franciscan Jacopone da Todi and to Innocent III...
in C Minor, and a Salve Regina
Salve Regina
The "Salve Regina", also known as the Hail Holy Queen, is a Marian hymn and one of four Marian antiphons sung at different seasons within the Christian liturgical calendar of the Roman Catholic Church. The Salve Regina is traditionally sung at Compline in the time from the Saturday before Trinity...
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Operas
- Tigrane, re d'Armenia (1710)
- I veri amici (1715)
- Il tiranno eroe (1715)
- Sesostri re d'Egitto (1716)
- La conquista del vello d'oro (1717)
- Astianatte (1718)
- GriseldaGriselda (Antonio Maria Bononcini)Griselda is a dramma per musica in three acts that was composed by Antonio Maria Bononcini. The opera uses a slightly revised version of the 1701 Italian libretto by Apostolo Zeno that was based on Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron...
(1718) - Nino (1720)
- Merope (1721)
- Endimione (1721)
- Rosiclea in Dania (1721)