Giuseppe Maria Buini (c. 1690 – 13 May 1739) was an Italian composer, organist, librettist and poet. He was a prolific composer of operas, primarily in the ''

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'' genre, which were performed in Venice and his native Bologna. Unusually for the period, he also wrote many of the libretti himself. Several of his comic opera libretti were subsequently re-set by other composers. According to Edward Dent, their influence can also be seen in the libretti which

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later wrote for

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. Very little of his music has survived, apart from a book of sonatas for violin and cello and a few individual arias and cantatas.Lanfranchi, Ariella (1972)
"Buini, Giuseppe Maria"
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'', Vol. 15. Treccani. Retrieved 2 April 2016 .

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