Antonio Maria Bononcini (1677-1726)
- Messa à Cinque Concertata
Performers: Silviа Frigаto & Raffаеlla Milаnеsi (sopranos); Andrеа
Arrivаbеnе (countertenor);
Elеna Biscuola & Sara Mingаrdo
(contraltos); Vаlеrio Contаldo & Raffaеlе Giordаni (tenors);
Sаlvo
Vitаlе (bass); Concеrto Itаliаno; Rinаldo Alеssаndrini (conductor)
Further info: Bononcini - Messa, Stabat Mater
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Italian composer, son of Giovanni Maria Bononcini (1642-1678) and
brother of Giovanni Bononcini (1670-1747). He studied with his father.
His first success came with the production of his opera Il trionfo di
Camilla, regina del Volsci (Naples, 1696). This opera was produced in
many other theaters in Italy, sometimes under different titles, as Amore
per amove, La fede in cimento, etc. It was presented in London (1706)
with great acclaim. Around 1700 Antonio joined his brother in Vienna,
and Telemann heard them perform at Berlin in summer 1702. Antonio was
first commissioned to compose for the Viennese court in 1705, the year
in which Joseph I became emperor. During Joseph’s reign Antonio was
appointed Kapellmeister to Joseph’s brother, who was living in Spain as
Charles III. In Vienna he produced the operas Teraspo (1704), Arminio
(1706), La conquista delle Spagne di Scipione Africano (1707), La presa
di Tebe (1708), and Tigrane, re d'Armenia (1710). Antonio may have
accompanied his brother to Rome when the two returned to Italy in 1713,
but he settled in Modena, where his wife, Eleonora Suterin, bore him
four sons and a daughter between 1715 and 1722. There he directed his
operas L'enigma disciolto (1716) and Lucio Vero (1716). His last opera,
Rosiclea in Dania, was staged in Naples (1721). He presumably wrote his
extant mass and Stabat mater during his final years, and the
contrapuntal complexities in the latter were largely responsible for
Padre Martini’s judgment of his style: ‘so elevated, lively, artful and
delightful, that he is distinguished above most early 18th-century
composers’. His most famous opera, Il trionfo di Camilla, has often been
erroneously attributed to his brother; several songs from it were
published in London by Walsh.
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