6 Sonatas Flute [Oboe/Vi./Recorder] and Bc - Pietro Guiseppe Gaetono (Giovanni) Boni
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Between 1720 and 1730, London's publisher duo Walsh and Hare published a collection of six sonatas penned by one 'Giovanni Boni'; this is the first time it has been reprinted in its entirety. The original title 'SOLOS / for a / GERMAN FLUTE / a HOBOY or VIOLIN / with a / Thorough Bass for the / HARPSICHORD / or / BASS VIOLIN / Compos'd by / Sigr. Giovanni Boni' recommends traverse flute, oboe or violin for the top part, the figured bass being entrusted to a harpsichord or (sic!) a violoncello. A 'Flûte de voix' or 'Voice-Flute' would also have suited the compass of the solo parts.
Biographical evidence of the author is very scarce. The London collection of 'Solos' is the only published work by a musician called 'Giovanni Boni' to feature among those 18th century music prints known to date. Yet the perfect contrapuntal dialogue and the compact, terse form of the single movements show the creator was a connoisseur of high baroque Italian compositional style as well as of melodic figuration. Musical history mentions only 'Giovanni (Battista) Boni' in connection with a harpsichord maker in Cortona who died in 1641 - but he can be ruled out as author of the sonatas.
During the heyday of London's publishers Walsh and Hare, there lived in Bologna a violinist called Pietro Giuseppe Gaetano Boni. His 'Cantata per la notte di Natale', performed to great acclaim in Perugia in 1719, reached England shortly afterwards - by then titled 'Cantata per il SS natale di Nostro Signore Giesu Christo'; it is now kept in Manchester. This may have been how the family name 'Boni' first reached England. In the Manchester copy, his forename is shortened to 'Gaetano', while a Roman print of 1717 ('Sonate per Camera a Voloncello, e Cembalo') refers to him as Pietro Gioseppe Gaetano Boni. Against the background of numerous versions and misinterpretations of this name we suspect that Walsh and Hare, after the success of Boni's Christmas Cantata, were interested in his smaller-scored works, and either misinterpreted his forename or turned Gio[seppe] into Giovanni.
The composer does not appear to have conceived these six sonatas as a group, for three of them are in the same key (e minor). The two movement 'Sonata III', a Siciliano (headed Adagio) followed by an Allegro, is so rudimentary as to suggest it was a church sonata of which the first half was lost on the way from Italy to London. The fact that 'Sonata IV' - except for the second and third movement inserted here - is identical to the 'Sonata III', op. 2/9, by Gaetano Boni published in 1720 in Rome, may be the final link in a chain proving that Giovanni and Pietro Giuseppe Gaetano Boni were one and the same person.
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