Giovanni Bononcini

Giovanni Battista Bononcini is a Compositeur Italy N born with Modena the July 18th 1670 and died in Vienna (Austria) the July 9th 1747.

Its first professor is his father, Giovanni Maria (1642-1678), type-setter and musician of church in Modena. After the death of this one, Giovanni studies with Bologna, near Giovanni Paolo Colonna.

Established with Bologna, he is musician with the church San Petronio and composes of the Instrumental music and religious. He is named Choirmaster of the church san Giovanni in Goes up and belonged to the Accademia Filarmonica .

He works some time with Milan, then with Rome where he attends patrons such as Pamphilj and Colonna. He then approaches the kind of the opera which was to establish its fame in all Italy, and even all Europe.

In 1698 it is indeed engaged at the court of the emperor of the Holy roman Empire Léopold I {{er}} and there remains one of the favorite musicians of its successor Joseph I {{er}}, until in 1711. Of passage to Berlin, it meets the young person Georg Friedrich Haendel, fifteen years its junior, of which it tests with spite the early talent, and which, later, it will again find on his way.

Of 1714 with 1719, in Rome, it is with the service of Johann Wenzel. Then, starting from 1720, it is established with London, under the patronage of the duke of Marlborough. The London public is then completely entiché of Italian opera, and Haendel began a prestigious career there. The two artists will measure one with the other during many years, either in the same company, or in concurrent organizations. Thus, the opera Muzio Scevola comprises three acts, first composed by Filippo Amadei, the second by Bononcini, the last by Haendel, in order to satisfy very short times. But more than of collaboration, it is about rival productions, each protagonist gaining in turn the advantage. The two men connect creations with success - for Bononcini: Astarto (1720), Crispo (1722), Griselda (1722) which gains a true triumph, Erminia (1723), Calfurnia (1724)… Bononcini also profits from a certain bias against Haendel, in reaction with respect to the dynasty hanovrienne. But the Italian opera has problems now, and while Haendel persists, Bononcini leaves London after having somewhat lost the face in a business of plagiarism.

In 1733 it is with Paris and composes for the Concert of sacred music. In 1737, it loses much money following a swindle. It carries out then a wandering existence, accommodated starting from 1741, by the queen Marie Therese in Vienna, where it dies.

Bononcini was a type-setter prolific and snuffed in all Europe. Its work includes/understands more than sixty scenic compositions, almost 300 Cantate S, of religious works (masses and others), of the instrumental music: Concerto S, Sonata S, Symphony S, etc

Works

• Maddalena a' piedi di Cristo , Oratorio (1690)
• Eraclea , Opera (1692)
• Nemica d' Amore , Serenade (1692)
• San Nicola Di Bari , Oratorio (Rome, 1693)
• the amore eroica FRA pastori (1696)
• It Trionfo de Camilla , Opera (1696)
• the clemenza di Augusto (1697)
• the fede pubblica (1699)
• Cefalo (1702)
• Etearco (1707)
• Maria fuggitivo (1708)
• Astarto (1720)
• Crispo (1721)
• Griselda (1722)
• Calphurnia' (1724)
• Astianatte (1727)
• Alessandro in Sidone (1737)