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BIOGRAPHY

Bononcini the younger was born in Modena .

His works include a number of Opera s, Masses , and a funeral anthem for the Duke Of Marlborough . One of his operas was ''Serse'', later adapted by George Frideric Handel . He played 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 rivalled 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)



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