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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.


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Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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

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