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1619–67, Italian Venetian-born Barbara Caterina Strozzi, singer and composer, was the daughter of the poet and librettist Giulio Strozzi by one of his servants. Although she was the principal singer at the Accademia degli Unisoni in Perugia, which had been founded by her father in 1634, her most important contribution to music was as one of ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

(Bâr’-bra Strot-se) 1619–64 Italian composer and singer In the 1630s, Strozzi was a central figure of the Venetian Accademia degli Unisoni, established by her adopted (or perhaps natural) father, the poet Giulio Strozzi, to provide a forum for her renowned vocal performances. A pupil of Cavalli, she published eight volumes of over 100 madrigals, motets, ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

little impact on the development of classical music. Despite this, there are talented women composers whose music does survive: Hildegard of Bingen from the eleventh century, or Barbara Strozzi from the seventeenth, Clara Schumann in the nineteenth and Lili Boulanger in the twentieth. The 1,000-year period has been sliced up into generally agreed periods that are, ...

Source: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music, general editor Paul Du Noyer

associated with vengeful men: her brothers, who disapproved of the liaison, ambushed Alessandro Stradella and murdered him. Introduction | Early & Middle Baroque | Opera Personalities | Barbara Strozzi | Early & Middle Baroque | Opera ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

in Rome in 1675. Recommended Recording: L’anime del Purgatorio and other cantatas, Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley (Musica Oscura) Introduction | Early Baroque | Classical Personalities | Barbara Strozzi | Early Baroque | Classical ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

prima donna. She was an impressive actress, possessed a fine treble voice and, it appears, had a fan following. In 1642, the librettist and poet Giulio Strozzi (1583–1652) wrote a book about her – Le glorie della Signora Anna Renzi romana (‘The Glory of the Roman [singer] Signora Anna Renzi’), in which he described her in glowing ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

Scarlatti’s 600 or so cantatas (written mainly for the solo voice, usually soprano) built on those of his predecessors such as Giacomo Carissimi (1605–74), Alessandro Stradella (1644–82) and Barbara Strozzi (c. 1619–64). Scarlatti bridged the change between recitatives and arias with arioso passages (a style of singing half way between recitative and aria). In his arias – often moving representations ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie
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