Buononcini
Americannoun
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His criticism of Handel, too, at a time when the world was divided between enthusiasm for427 Handel and enthusiasm for Buononcini, shows a remarkably just and penetrating estimate of this great genius.
From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Clarke, Helen Archibald
The directors engaged Nicolo Haym and Paolo Rolli as poets to provide libretti; for the music they naturally secured Handel, but also invited Buononcini over from Rome, and Attilio Ariosti from Berlin.
From Handel by Dent, Edward J.
He secured Buononcini for the Academy, and the season opened on November 19 with Astarto.
From Handel by Dent, Edward J.
Buononcini having lost their favour, they engaged as composer the Neapolitan Nicolo Porpora, famous then as a great trainer of singers, and still more famous in later years as the teacher of Haydn.
From Handel by Dent, Edward J.
The former received the boy very kindly and gave him every encouragement, but Buononcini took a dislike to him from the first, and seems to have done his best to injure the little player's reputation.
From Story-Lives of Great Musicians by Rowbotham, Francis Jameson
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