Aurelio Bonelli (c.1569 – after 1620) was an Italian

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and

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. Born in

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, practically nothing is known about him save that he was student of the painter

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. After Adriano Banchieri moved to

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in 1601 Bonelli took his job as organist at

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. Towards 1600 Bonelli is known to have been working as organist in Milan.Robert Eitner: Biographisch-bibliographisches Quellen-Lexikon der Musiker und Musikgelehrten...(1900)
/ref> Also, in 1620 he was organist of

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, Bologna. Bonelli published at least one a volume of three-part Villanelle (Venice, 1596), a book of masses and motets, and his ''Il Primo Libro de Ricercari et canzoni a quattro voci con due toccate e doi dialoghi a otto''. The last was published in Venice by Angelo Gardano in 1602; it is a collection of ricercars, canzonas, toccatas and eight-part madrigals (''dialoghi'').

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