Francesco Antonio Bonporti (1672-1749)
- Concerto a quattro, Op.11 No.8 (c.1715)
Performers: Amsterdams Kamerorkest; André Rieu (1917-1992, conductor)
Further info: Italienische Meister Zwischen Barock und Classik
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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’. He 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 (c.1715). Such as
many italian composers of his time, he based his musical language on
Corelli.
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