Alba Trissina

Santa Maria in Araceli, 80 km (50 mi) from Venice

Alba Trissina (fl. 1590) or Alba Tressina, was an Italian composer and nun. She was a Carmelite at the monastery of Santa Maria in Araceli in Vicenza, and studied with Leone Leoni, who also preserved and published four of her works.^[1]^[2]^[3] Leoni dedicated his Quarto Libro, 1622, to this pupil.^[4]

Works[]

Four motets for alto voice in Leoni's Sacri fiori: quarto libro de motettia are all of her compositions that survive.^[5]^[6]

Vulnerasti cor meum A: her most noted work
Quaemadmodum A
In nomine Iesu AA
Anima mea AAT

References[]

^ L Johnson - 2009 Pain, Desire, and Unattainable Ecstasy in Alba Tressina's Vulnerasti Cor Meum "Little is known about the seventeenth-century musician and composer Alba Tressina, and even less is known about her musical career, since ..."
^ HOASM: Alba Tressina "Italian composer and Carmelite nun at the convent of Santa Maria in Aracoeli in Vicenza. Her only known works are found in a work by her teacher, Leone Leoni, ..."
^ Vulnerasti cor meum - Artemisia Editions Archived 2017-10-10 at the Wayback Machine "Alba Tressina: 4 Motets (1-3 voices) & motets (2-4 voices and violins) by Leone Leoni (CC-05a)."
^ Catalogo della Biblioteca del Liceo musicale de Bologna, Conservatorio di musica "G.B. Martini.", Gaetano Gaspari, Federico Parisini - 1890 (A tergo del frontispizio sta impressa la dedicatoria che segue): Alla Molto Illustre e molto Reverenda S. Alba Tressina Monacha in Araceli di Vicenza. Signora Osseruandissìma. Sgombra la Musica, quasi come de smisi Regina, i noiosi ...
^ Submitted by Julie Anne Sadie and Rhian Samuel (1994). The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers. The Macmillan Press Limited. ISBN 0-333-51598-6.
^ Glickman, Sylvia; Schleifer, Martha Furman (2003). From convent to concert hall: a guide to women composers.