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(b Capua or Naples, c1705; d ?Rome, c1780). Italian composer, possibly the father of Marcello Bernardini. Burney (1771) described him as: an old and excellent Neapolitan composer. He is the natural son of a person of very high rank in that country, and at first only studied music as an accomplishment; but being left by his father with only a small fortune, which was soon dissipated, he
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