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John Baptist Grano (c. 1692 – c. 1748) was an English trumpeter, flutist and composer, who worked with George Frederick Handel at the opera house in London's Haymarket.〔White, Jerry. ("Pain and Degradation in Georgian London: Life in the Marshalsea Prison" ), ''History Workshop Journal'', 2009, 68 (1), pp. 69–98.〕 Grano is best known for having been imprisoned for a debt of £99 in the notorious Marshalsea prison in Southwark from May 1728 until September 1729. He kept a diary of his time there, the manuscript of which is held in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. It was published in 1998 as ''Handel's Trumpeter: The Diary of John Grano'', edited by John Ginger, with a foreword by Crispian Steele-Perkins. The diary has become an important primary source of material about the Marshalsea. It details Grano's friendships, love affairs and adventures as he struggles to earn enough money to buy his freedom.〔Grano, John Baptist and Ginger, John. ''Handel's Trumpeter: The Diary of John Grano''. Pendragon Press, 1998.〕 ==Personal life== Grano's father, John Baptist Grano (also written Granom), and his mother Jane Villeneuve, originally from France, lived in London toward the end of the 17th century. An entry in the poor rate returns in 1698 places them in Angel Court, Charing Cross. John Ginger writes that the father may have been a regimental trumpeter in the Dutch Guards who travelled to England during the Glorious Revolution of 1688, when James II was overthrown.〔 The couple later moved to Pall Mall, where they ran a haberdasher's. Their first son, John Baptist, died in 1691, and their second son, the John Baptist of this article, was given the same name. There were three other children: Jane, born in 1697, Mary and a brother Lewis. The two brothers were both given a musical education.〔Grano and Ginger, pp. 1, 3.〕 Grano married Mary Thurman at St James Piccadilly on 30 July 1713. Ginger writes that the application for the marriage licence states that bride and groom were both over 21, though Mary was just 15 years old. The marriage produced one child and ended in or around 1719.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Baptist Grano」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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