Valerio Bona or Buona (c. 1560c. 1620) was an Italian

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

of the early

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

; he was also a Franciscan friar. Little is known about his life. He appears to have spent time in Milan and Verona, and may have been a student of

Costanzo Porta Costanzo Porta (1528 or 1529 – 19 May 1601) was an Italian composer of the Renaissance, and a representative of what is known today as the Venetian School. He was highly praised throughout his life both as a composer and a teacher, and had ...

. His theoretical ''Regole del contraponto'' of 1595 was influenced by Gioseffo Zarlino. His musical works include masses and canzonas.

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Josef-Horst Lederer Josef-Horst Lederer (born 18 September 1944) is an Austrian musicologist. Life Born in Celje, Styria, today Slovenia, Lederer studied musicology with Othmar Wessely at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. He also studied piano and ...

. "Bona, Valerio." ''Grove Music Online''. ''Oxford Music Online''. Oxford University Press, accessed October 22, 2013, http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/03474

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bona, Valerio Renaissance composers Italian Baroque composers Italian male classical composers 1560 births 1620 deaths 17th-century Italian composers 17th-century male musicians