Anna Bon (1738 – 1769)
Anna Bon was baptized in Bologna but she might have been born in St. Petersburg. Both her parents were involved in opera — her father was a librettist and set designer, and her mother was a singer — and they had at least recently been in St. Petersburg when Anna was born. Sometimes her last name is given as Boni.
At the age of 4 Anna Bon entered a music school in Venice, and later joined her parents at Bayreuth and became a court composer. She composed her Opus 1 flute sonatas at the age of 16. This is the 4th in that collection.