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BONONCINI (or BUONONCINI), GIOVANNI BATTISTA (1672?-1750?) , See also:Italian musical composer, was the son of the composer Giovanni Maria Bononcini, best known as the author of a See also:treatise entitled Il Musico Prattico (See also:Bologna, 1673), and See also:brother of the composer Marc' See also:Antonio Bononcini, with whom he has often been confused. He is said to have been See also:born at See also:Modena in 1672, but the date of his See also:birth must probably be placed some ten years earlier. He was a See also:pupil of his See also:father and of See also:Colonna, and produced his first operas, Tullo Ostilio and Serse, at See also:Rome in 1694. In 1696 he was at the See also:court of See also:Berlin, and between 1700 and 1720 divided his See also:time between See also:Vienna and See also:Italy. In 1720 he was summoned to See also:London by the Royal See also:Academy of See also:Music, and produced several operas, enjoying the See also:protection of the See also:Marlborough See also:family. About 1731 it was discovered that he had a few years previously palmed off a See also:madrigal by See also:Lotti as his own See also:work, and after a See also:long See also:correspondence he was obliged to leave the See also:country. He remained for several years in See also:France, and in 1748 was summoned to Vienna to compose music in See also:honour of the See also:peace of See also:Aix-la-Chapelle. He then went to See also:Venice as a composer of operas, and nothing more is known of his See also:life. Bononcini's rivalry with See also:Handel will always ensure him See also:immortality, but he was in himself a musician of considerable merit, and seems to have influenced the See also:style, not only of Handel but even of Alessandro See also:Scarlatti. Either he or his brother (our knowledge of the two composers' lives is at See also:present not sufficient to distinguish their See also:works clearly) was the inventor of that sharply rhythmical style conspicuous in Il T?ionfo di Camilla (1697), the success of which at See also:Naples probably induced Scarlatti to adopt a similar type of See also:melody. It is noticeable in the once popular See also:air of Bononcini, L'esperto nocchiero, and in the air 2I3 Vado See also:ben spesso, long attributed to Salvator See also:Rosa, but really by Bononcini.

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