Bononcini

[ baw-nawn-chee-nee ]

noun

1. Gio·van·ni Ma·ri·a [jaw-, vahn, -nee mah-, ree, -ah], 1640–78, and his sons Giovanni Bat·ti·sta [baht-, tee, -stah], 1670–1747, and Marc An·to·nio [mah, r, kahn-, taw, -nyaw], 1675–1726, Italian composers.

Example Sentences

Thence he went to Berlin to study the opera-school, where Ariosti and Bononcini were favorite composers.

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He has just nodded patronizingly to Bononcini in the Strand, and suddenly meets Handel, who cuts him dead.

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Next, again, mine some-dimes nodtable rival Bononcini, and old Borbora?

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Without Bononcini's fire or Handel's daring originality, he represented the dry contrapuntal school of Italian music.

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Attilio was to put the first act to music, Bononcini the second, and Handel the third.

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