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The American history and encyclopedia of music, 1908
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1Bond
2she came to Chicago with the intention of starting a new home there. The new establishment was to be shared with Amber, the well-known Chicago newspaper writer, but the plan was frustrated by the death of this friend. Mrs. Bond now went abroad for a season, and there received encouragement to devote her attention to music. On her return she settled in Chicago. Her work was introduced to the public by means of recitals, at which she sang her own songs solely. She made extensive tours in this country, and in 1905, sang in various European capitals. For a number of years she has published her compositions herself, consisting of a large number of songs and various pieces for the piano. Of the songs mention should be made of His Lullaby; Where to Build Your Castles; Three Ages of Man; I Love You Truly; Just A Wearyin' For You; Des Hold My Hand; His Buttons are Marked U. S.; Movin' In De Bes' Soci'ty; The Dear Auf Wiedersehn; and The Naughty Little Girl.
4Bononcini (bō-nôn-chē'-nē), Giovanni Battista. About 1660-about 1750.
5The most famous member of a noted family of Italian musicians. He was educated by his father and later studied at Bologna. About 1691 he went to Vienna, where he was appointed violoncellist, in the band of the Emperor Leopold, and where, at the age of eighteen, he brought out an opera, Camilla, which was very successful, but which is said to have been the work of his brother. In 1694, Bononcini went to Rome, where he produced his first operas, Tullo Ostilio and Serse. From 1699 to 1711, he was Court composer at Vienna, with the exception of two years, 1703 to 1705, that he spent in Berlin, as composer to Queen Sophie Charlotte. From this time up to 1720 his time was divided between Vienna and Italy. In 1720 he went to London, as one of the composers for the Royal Academy of Music, which had just been founded, with Handel as director. A great rivalry grew up between Bononcini and Handel, which resulted in two factions, almost political in character, the King supporting Handel, and the Duke of Marlborough and other nobles favoring Bononcini. Bononcini was finally taken into the Marlborough family and given a pension of five hundred pounds a year. This rivalry was brought to a crisis by the performance of the opera, Muzio Scevola, of which Handel, Bononcini, and probably Ariosti, composed, each an act. The public decided overwhelmingly in favor of Handel. This decision, together with the discovery that Bononcini had published a madrigal of Lotti's as his own, completed his defeat and broke off his connection with the Marlborough family, and, his reputation beginning to suffer, he lost his friends and position. In 1733, a swindler going under the name of Count Ughi, persuaded Bononcini to go to Paris, where he cheated him out of the remains of his fortune, on the pretense of being able to make gold. Bononcini was now compelled to take up his profession again and composed for the Chapel Royal a motet, playing the violoncello himself for Louis XV. In 1848, the Emperor of Germany sent for him to come to Vienna, to compose the music for the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle. Soon after this he went to Venice as composer to the opera and here, at the age of ninety, we lose trace of him. While composer for the Royal Academy in London, Bononcini produced the operas, Astarto; Crispo; Griselda; Pharnaces; Erminia; Calphurnia; and Astyanax. These with other operas, in all thirty-two; oratorios; masses; madrigals and motets, are his most important works. He also published some piano and chamber-music.
7* Bonvin (bôn-văn), Ludwig. 1850-
8Contemporary Swiss composer, organist and chorister, at present orchestra-director at Canisus College, Buffalo, New York. He was born at Siders, Switzerland. Was the son of a physician, studied in the college at Sitten, and later began medical studies in Vienna. As a musician he is chiefly self-taught, with the exception of piano lessons during the college days in Sitten. In 1874 he entered the order of Jesuits in Holland, and in England, in 1885, was ordained priest. For about six years he served as organist, in various houses of the order in Holland and England. Father Bonvin came to America in 1887, and from that year to 1905 held the post of choir-director at Canisius College, and then became director of the
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