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Giovanni Maria Bononcini

1642 - 1678

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Giovanni Maria Bononcini (bap. 23 September 1642 – 18 November 1678) was an Italian violinist and composer, the father of a musical dynasty. In 1671 Bononcini the elder became a court musician at Modena. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giovanni Maria Bononcini has received more than 25,436 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Giovanni Maria Bononcini is the 664th most popular musician (up from 736th in 2019), the 2,512th most popular biography from Italy (up from 2,548th in 2019) and the 29th most popular Italian Musician.

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Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Giovanni Maria Bononcini ranks 664 out of 3,175Before him are Alec John Such, Ric Ocasek, Mark Evans, Vasco Rossi, Ma Rainey, and Nicolas de Grigny. After him are Roger Hodgson, Mick Mars, Jeff Hanneman, Nikolai Zverev, Jan Akkerman, and Eric Woolfson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1642, Giovanni Maria Bononcini ranks 15Before him are Andrea Pozzo, Seki Takakazu, Louis I, Prince of Monaco, Abdul-Qādir Bedil, Marie Anne de La Trémoille, princesse des Ursins, and Zheng Jing. After him are Anne Hilarion de Tourville, Hâfiz Osman, Claudio Coello, and Thomas Shadwell. Among people deceased in 1678, Giovanni Maria Bononcini ranks 11Before him are Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten, François Pierre La Varenne, Catherine Charlotte de Gramont, Karel Dujardin, Louis VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, and Antonio de Pereda. After him are Erasmus Quellinus the Younger, Christoph Bernhard von Galen, Caesar van Everdingen, Antoine III de Gramont, Louis VII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, and Otto Marseus van Schrieck.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giovanni Maria Bononcini ranks 2,512 out of 5,161Before him are Massimo Bonini (1959), Pietro Anastasi (1948), Pietro Mocenigo (1406), Cristoforo Buondelmonti (1385), Vasco Rossi (1952), and Franco Interlenghi (1931). After him are Riccardo Paletti (1958), Ludovico Antonio Muratori (1672), Virginio Rosetta (1902), Anna Maria Ferrero (1934), Girolamo Aleandro (1480), and Romano Scarpa (1927).

Among MUSICIANS In Italy

Among musicians born in Italy, Giovanni Maria Bononcini ranks 29Before him are Guido Cantelli (1920), Gaspara Stampa (1523), Giovanni Sgambati (1841), Antonio Bazzini (1818), Andrea Guarneri (1626), and Vasco Rossi (1952). After him are Enrico Toselli (1883), Marco Uccellini (1603), Alice (1954), Giorgio Gaber (1939), Benny Benassi (1967), and Domenico Montagnana (1686).