COLONNA, Gioanni Paolo, chapel-master of St. Petronio at Bologna, and president of the Philharmonic Academy there, was born at Brescia about the middle of the seventeenth century. The music-school which he established at Bologna produced many good musicians; among them Clari. Most of Colonna's works are for the church, and are among the most remarkable compositions of the seventeenth century. Doctor Boyce considered Colonna as Handel's model for choruses accompanied with many instrumental parts different from the vocal. (G.F.G.)