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Sunday, August 19, 2012

A Musical Dynasty: the Bononcini's

Portrait of Giovanni Battista Bononcini
Italian Baroque composer and cellist
(1670 - 1747)
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Giovanni_Battista_Bononcini.png)
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Giovanni Battista Bononcini: Per la gloria d'adorarvi
aria from opera Griselda (1722)
Joan Sutherland
(video by ioSonoCallas)



Giovanni Battista Bononcini: Sonata I in A minor for Violoncello
Allegro, Andante, Grazioso - Minuet - Grazioso
Anner Bylsma: Violoncello
Gustav Leonhardt: Harpsichord
(video by Der Klänge der Götter)

Giovanni Battista Bononcini was the brother of Antonio Maria Bononcini (also a composer and cellist) and the son of Giovanni Maria Bononcini (a composer and violinist): the dynasty  of the Bononcini's (or Buononcini's, as their name came to us in slight variations).







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