Anna Bon was a Russian-born Italian composer and performer. Her parents were both involved in music and traveled internationally, her father a Bolognese artist, and her mother a singer. She studied music at the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice with the maestra di viola, Candida della Pièta. At the age of 16, she composed her six op. 1 flute sonatas, published in Nürnberg in 1756, which she dedicated to Friedrich. By 1756, she rejoined her parents in Bayreuth and held the new post of ‘chamber music virtuosa’ at the court. In 1762 the family moved to the Esterházy court at Eisenstadt, where she remained until at least 1765. She dedicated the published set of six harpsichord sonatas, op. 2, to Ernestina Augusta Sophia, Princess of Saxe-Weimar, and the set of six divertimenti (trio sonatas), op. 3, to Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria. In 1767, she lived in Hildburghausen, Thuringia, with her husband, a singer named Mongeri, although details of her story are lost to history. She was born in 1739 and died at an unknown date after 1767.—Excerpted from Wikipedia

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Selected Books

Women Composers: 1700 to 1799
Martha Schleifer and Sylvia Glickman
G. K. Hall & Company, 1998
$39.95

“Belongs in all music collections.”— Library Journal

Selected Music

 Anna Bon di Venezia (1995), 1 CD

 Six Sonate, op 2 (2006), 1 CD

 Sei Sonate Da Camera (2012), 1 CD

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Selected Recordings

Minuetto con Variazione

6 Sonatas for Flute and Cembalo

Sonata VI

Selected Sheet Music

6 Flute Sonatas

Source: IMSLP.org

Showcase Piece

Sonata for harpsichord in B flat major

Notes and Commentary

Anna Bon was a Russian-born Italian composer and performer. Her parents were both involved in music and traveled internationally, her father a Bolognese artist, and her mother a singer. She studied music at the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice with the maestra di viola, Candida della Pièta. At the age of 16, she composed her six op. 1 flute sonatas, published in Nürnberg in 1756, which she dedicated to Friedrich. By 1756, she rejoined her parents in Bayreuth and held the new post of ‘chamber music virtuosa’ at the court. In 1762 the family moved to the Esterházy court at Eisenstadt, where she remained until at least 1765. She dedicated the published set of six harpsichord sonatas, op. 2, to Ernestina Augusta Sophia, Princess of Saxe-Weimar, and the set of six divertimenti (trio sonatas), op. 3, to Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria. In 1767, she lived in Hildburghausen, Thuringia, with her husband, a singer named Mongeri, although details of her story are lost to history. She was born in 1739 and died at an unknown date after 1767.—Excerpted from Wikipedia

Music and Books

Selected Books

Women Composers: 1700 to 1799
Martha Schleifer and Sylvia Glickman
G. K. Hall & Company, 1998
$39.95

“Belongs in all music collections.”— Library Journal

Selected Music

Anna Bon di Venezia (1995), 1 CD

Six Sonate, op 2 (2006), 1 CD

Sei Sonate Da Camera (2012), 1 CD

More Anna Bon Music

Complete Works

Six Chamber Sonatas, for transverse flute, violoncello, or harpsichord, op. 1
Six Sonatas for Harpsichord, op. 2
Six Divertimenti, for two flutes and basso continuo, op. 3
Aria, “Astra coeli,” for soprano, 2 violins, viola, and basso continuo
Offertory, “Ardete amore,” for soprano, 2 altos, bass, 2 oboes, 2 horns, 2 violins, viola, and basso continuo
Motet, “Eia in preces et veloces,” for alto, 2 violins, viola, and basso continuo
Opera, now lost, composed during her stay at the court of Prince Esterhazy in Eisenstadt

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