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Barbara Strozzi (also called Barbara Valle; baptised 6 August 1619 – 11 November 1677) was an Italian composer and singer of the Baroque Period. During her lifetime, Strozzi published eight volumes of her own music, and had more secular music in print than any other composer of the era. [ 1 ]
Barbara Strozzi was among the last composers and performers in this style, which by the mid-17th century was considered archaic. [32] At least one instrument used by the concerto delle donne , the harp L'Arpa di Laura in the Galleria Estense art gallery , has become famous.
Magnificat has particularly championed and performed music by women composers Francesca Caccini, Isabella Leonarda, Barbara Strozzi and Chiara Margarita Cozzolani and has hosted a conference on Women and Music in Seventeenth Century Italy. Magnificat's annual concerts, recordings, and participation in music festivals have won audience and ...
These typically were enhanced with expanded and updated material and included individual and grouped composer biographies, [6] a four-volume dictionary of American music (1984; revised 2013, 8 vols.), [7] a three-volume dictionary of musical instruments (1984), [8] a four-volume dictionary of opera (1992), [9] and a volume on women composers ...
Gregorio Allegri (1582–1652), composer of the famous Miserere, copied from memory on two hearings by the 14-year-old Mozart; Giuseppe Allevi (1603 or 1604-1670) [2] Filippo Amadei (fl. 1690–1730) Gaetano Amadeo (1824–1893) Marco Ambrosini (born 1964) Cataldo Amodei (1649–1693) [3] Felice Anerio (c.1560–1614) Giovanni Francesco Anerio ...
In 1989, one of the most famous female bands, the Dixie Chicks, began playing on street corners in Dallas, Texas. The band is trio consisting of Natalie Maines as lead singer, Natalie Maguire on the fiddle and mandolin, and Emily Robison on banjo, the Dobro, guitar, and the accordion. The Dixie Chicks sold more CDs than all other country music ...
Legendary newswoman Barbara Walters, who died Friday at 93, may have started out on "The Today Show" and blazed a trail as the first woman to co-anchor the evening news. But she made her name over ...
Chiara Margarita Cozzolani (27 November 1602 – ca. 1676–1678), was a Baroque music composer, singer and Benedictine nun. [1] She spent her adult life cloistered in the convent of Santa Radegonda, Milan, where she served as prioress and abbess and stopped composing.