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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
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