Giovanni Maria Bononcini

Italian violinist and composer (1642-1678)

Giovanni Maria Bononcini worked in music at a period when the art was changing shape around them.

The record lists Giovanni Maria Bononcini as Italian violinist and composer (1642-1678).

Giovanni Maria Bononcini was born at Zocca in 1642.

Music then was written to commission, for a court, a church or a patron, and a composer's freedom was bounded by whoever paid.

He worked as composer, musicologist and music theorist.

The instruments recorded are violin.

His work is classed as opera.

A musical reputation rests on a handful of works that refuse to date.

Giovanni Maria Bononcini died in 1678, aged 36. The recordings and scores remain, which is the only durable form a musical life takes.

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