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The Ospedale della Pieta is the main setting of Rosalind Laker's (pen name of Barbara Ovstedal) The Venetian Mask (1992) Corona, L. (4 November 2008). The Four Seasons: A Novel of Vivaldi's Venice. Hachette Books. ISBN 9781401395377. (2008) is a romanticized history of the women who were abandoned and studied in the Ospedale della Pietà.
The four great Venetian Ospedali (Ospedali Grandi, also referred to as the Ospedali Maggiori) - the Ospedale della Pietà, the Ospedale degl'Incurabili, the Ospedale di Santa Maria dei Derelitti, and the Ospedale di San Lazzaro dei Mendicanti - were charitable hospices, which provided a wide range of services for the needy of Venice.
Agata della Pietà is known to have written several musical compositions, including a setting of Psalm 134 Ecce nunc for compline. Harpsichordist, Elizabeth Anderson completed a reconstruction of this work in 2022 and it was first performed by the Australian Chamber Choir in Melbourne in May 2022. [ 1 ]
The orphanage was established to raise girls who would be useful to society. Babies would be dropped off through a secret opening barely large enough for them, first created in 1696. She was called Anna Maria, though later known as Anna Maria dal Violin and Anna Maria della Pietà. By the time she was eight her musical prowess had brought her ...
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Vivaldi worked in Venice as a priest and director of music at an orphanage for girls, Ospedale della Pietà, and left a substantial amount of sacred music. [3] Ospedale della Pietà. He composed settings of the Magnificat canticle, a regular part of vesper services. [4] [5] Musicologists differ in dating the works, for example before 1717 [6 ...
Nostra Signora della Fortuna [9] 17 January 1637 [10] Chiesa dei Santi Vittore e Carlo, Genoa: Pope Urban VIII Our Lady of Piety [11] 31 August 1637: Chapel of the Pieta, Saint Peter's Basilica: Pope Urban VIII [a] Madonna della Strada [12] 15 August 1638 Church of the Gesù, Rome: Pope Urban VIII Madonna di Santa Teresa [b] [13] 16 September 1638
Santa (also known as Sanza or Samaritana) della Pietà (fl. ca. 1725 – ca. 1750, died after 1774) was an Italian singer, composer, and violinist. A foundling admitted in infancy to the Ospedale della Pietà , della Pietà received a full grounding in music from early childhood at the coro , or music school, attached to the convent.