Talk:Giovanni Bononcini
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Plain Giovanni?
editAccording to an emphatic entry from 1971 in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (Treccani), his name is simply "Giovanni", not "Giovanni Battista" [1]. I would generally tend consider this relatively recent encyclopedic source more reliable than the 1879 entry from The American Cyclopedia currently cited in support of "Giovanni Battista" [2], or other tertiary sources from that era, such as the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica [3]. His current Grove entry makes no mention of Battista and I can't see any reference to the name by the Bononcini scholar Anthony Ford. The Italian Wikipedia goes with plain "Giovanni". Should we do so too? 86.162.136.32 (talk) 14:09, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
- Yes, definitely. And thank you, 86.162.136.32, for improving the article so much! Unfortunately, there are still a lot of articles like this on WP, sourced solely to the these outdated public domain books. It used to be at Giovanni Bononcini. I'm not sure why it was moved in 2006. I've moved it back. Voceditenore (talk) 17:47, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
- Grazie, Voce di tenore! :) 86.162.136.32 (talk) 18:15, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
Date of Death
editHow come he went to compose music for the Treaty of Aix-La-Chapelle (1748) if he died in 1747? 58.152.33.141 (talk) 13:46, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
- You're absolutely right. This article was mostly copied from 1911 "reference" books and it shows. He wrote a Te Deum in 1741 in Vienna for the future Emperor Francis I. It was used after Bononcini's death for the 1748 treaty celebrations but was not written for them. Equally absurd is the assertion that after 1748, he went to Venice to compose operas. I'm removing that whole section, which is nonsense. I'll re-add a proper "Final years", properly sourced tomorrow. Voceditenore (talk) 15:56, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
- Done, and thank you very much 58.152.33.141 for pointing out the error. Voceditenore (talk) 18:01, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
Portrait
editThe portrait of Bononcini in the Museo della musica di Bologna is certainly not contemporary. It was done about 40 years after Bononcini's death.--Suessmayr~enwiki (talk) 06:04, 29 May 2016 (UTC)