Rosa Giacinta Badalla
Rosa Giacinta Badalla (ca. 1660 – ca. 1710) was an Italian composer from the Milan area[1] and Benedictine nun. The first record of her is in the lists of the monastery of Saint Radegonda in Milan from 1678. Claudia Sessa, Claudia Rusca, and Chiara Margarita Cozzolani were also active at Milanese convents during the same period.
She had only one printed collection, Motetti a voce sola (1684, Venice), a book of solo motets. Kendrick identifies it as "remarkable among Milanese solo motet books…for its patent vocal viruosity, motivic originality and self-assured compositional technique".[2]
There are also two surviving secular cantatas, Vuò cercando (ca. 1680) and O fronde care (ca 1695),[1] to which Badalla also wrote the text.[3]
References[]
- Kendrick, Robert L. (2001). "Rosa Giacinta Badalla". In Root, Deane L. (ed.). The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Oxford University Press.
- The Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers, edited by Julie Anne Sadie and Rhian Samuel. "Rosa Giacinta Badalla" Robert L. Kendrick, pg. 32, Norton and Company, New York and London, 1995. ISBN 0-393-03487-9
Notes[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Rosa Giacinta Badalla — A Modern Reveal: Songs and Stories of Women Composers". A Modern Reveal. Retrieved 2019-05-13.
- ^ Norton/Grove
- ^ Grove
Further reading[]
- Free scores by Rosa Giacinta Badalla at the International Music Score Library Project
- Free scores by Rosa Giacinta Badalla at the Choral Public Domain Library
Categories:
- Italian Baroque composers
- Italian female classical composers
- Benedictine nuns
- 1660s births
- 1710s deaths
- 18th-century Italian composers
- 18th-century Italian women
- 18th-century women composers
- Italian composer stubs
- Roman Catholic biographical stubs