Previous posts for July 18th are found here: Pauline Viardot (2019) and Richard Branson (2020)
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Giovanni Battista Bononcini] (18 July 1670 – 9 July 1747) was an Italian composer, cellist, singer, and teacher.
Take What You Can Get
From 1720 to 1732 he was in London, where for a time his popularity rivaled Handel's. Their competition inspired a witty verse epigram that made the phrase "tweedledum and tweedledee" famous. -- adapted form Wikipedia
Bononcini is mentioned in history books
As a one-time Handelian rival.
It isn’t the best of historical nooks,
But it gives him a kind of survival.
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Pauline Viardot (18 July 1821 – 18 May 1910) was a great mezzo and a minor composer.
Hobnobbing
Toward the end of her life, the opera diva Pauline Viardot took stock of her vast social network. She wrote a three-page, multicolumn list of everyone she had ever met, worked with or loved.
She ended up with over 300 names, a who’s-who of 19th-century icons: composers like Rossini, Liszt and Schumann; novelists like George Sand, Victor Hugo and Ivan Turgenev, her lover; Giuseppe Mazzini and Napoleon III. --- Hilary Poriss, New York Times, July 16, 2021
Pauline Viardot,
Who got to know
A most impressive crew,
Compiled a roll
Which on the whole
Reads like a Who Was Who.
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