Francesco Antonio Bonporti (1672-1749)
- Concerto a quattro, Op.11 No.4 (c.1715)
Performers: I Musici
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Italian priest and composer. He was initially educated in Trento and
Innsbruck in philosophical and humanistic subjects appropriate to the
clerical vocation he was to follow. In 1691 he was admitted to the
Collegium Germanicum in Rome, where he studied theology. While in Rome,
he also studied composition under the guidance of Giuseppe Ottavio
Pitoni and possibly violin (not documented) with Arcangelo Corelli.
Bonporti returned to Trent ordained as a priest and obtained a minor
office in the cathedral in 1697. There he published his first opus, a
set of ten trio sonatas and where on the title-page he called himself
‘gentiluomo di Trento’. Bonporti moved to Padua in 1740, lodging in the
house of a fellow priest. A final appeal to Empress Maria Theresa in
1746, in which op.12 was enlisted, proved fruitless. He died three years
later and was buried in Padua. Bonporti regarded himself as primarily a
priest rather than a composer. His output consists in twelve opus, and
the foremost of them is his Concerti a quattro, Op.11 (Trent, c.1715).
Such as many italian composers of his time, he based his musical
language on Corelli.
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