Colonna

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 357

Colonna, GIOVANNI PAOLO, composer, born about 1640, either at Brescia or Bologna, became principal of the musical academy at Bologna. Of some 44 works, nearly all were for the church; his one opera, Amilcare, was first performed in 1693. He died 28th November 1695.

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