Bononcini
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...Mira, helped begin the English fashion for Italian opera. After failing in his operatic ventures Bononcini, charged with plagiarism, left England and spent the rest of his life in obscure wanderings. He composed operas, produced in Venice, from 1748...