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Composer: Francesco Antonio Bonporti (16721749)
Work: Concerto a quattro, Op.11 No.4 (c.1715)
Performers: I Musici

Concerto a quattro (c.1715)
1. Vivace Ma Larghetto Largo 0:00
2. Siciliana 6:30
3. Allegro 9:20

Painting: Willem van Herp (c.16141677) Interior with merry company
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Drawing: Pierre Mortier (16611711) La ville de Trente
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Francesco Antonio Bonporti
(Trento, bap. 11 June 1672 Padua, 19 December 1749)

Italian priest and composer. He was initially educated in Trento and Innsbruck in philosophical and humanistic subjects appropriate to the clerical vocation he was to follow. In 1691 he was admitted to the Collegium Germanicum in Rome, where he studied theology. While in Rome, he also studied composition under the guidance of Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni and possibly violin (not documented) with Arcangelo Corelli. Bonporti returned to Trent ordained as a priest and obtained a minor office in the cathedral in 1697. There he published his first opus, a set of ten trio sonatas and where on the titlepage he called himself ‘gentiluomo di Trento’. Bonporti moved to Padua in 1740, lodging in the house of a fellow priest. A final appeal to Empress Maria Theresa in 1746, in which op.12 was enlisted, proved fruitless. He died three years later and was buried in Padua. Bonporti regarded himself as primarily a priest rather than a composer. His output consists in twelve opus, and the foremost of them is his Concerti a quattro, Op.11 (Trent, c.1715). Such as many italian composers of his time, he based his musical language on Corelli.