Chiara Margarita Cozzolani

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Chiara Margarita Cozzolani (born November 27, 1602 in Milan , † between May 4, 1676 and April 20, 1678 there) was an Italian singer and composer.

Life

Cozzolani was born in 1602 as the youngest daughter of a wealthy merchant family in Milan. She entered the Benedictine monastery of Santa Radegonda, where she took her religious vows in 1620 and adopted "Chiara" as her religious name. From 1658 to 1659 she was abbess and prioress of the monastery in the 1660s . After 1650, Cozzolani's musical productivity seems to have declined, partly due to her monastic duties and partly to the negative attitude towards monastery music under Archbishop Alfonso Litta .

The traditional music shows Cozzolani as one of the most important composers in Milan in the middle of the 17th century. According to the New Grove, her duets and solos from the Concerti sacri are among the excellent examples of the Lombard style influenced by Gasparo Casati . These motets are characterized by expressive, quickly performed texts, sequences , melisms at uneven intervals and parallel third-octave intervals . Her three- and four-part pieces, on the other hand, go back to older styles. In the Vespers of Mary of 1650, double choir - antiphons and concertante solos and duets alternate. The concertos published in the same work have a more eclectic style than those of 1642.

Works

  • Primavera di fiori musicali. 1–4 voices and figured bass (Milan 1640, lost)
  • Concerti sacri. 2–4 voices and figured bass ( Venice 1642); O dulcis Jesu (1649)
  • Scherzi di sacra melodia. 1 part, figured bass lost (Venice 1648)
  • Salmi à otto ... motetti et dialoghi. 2–8 voices and figured bass (Venice 1650)
  • No, no no che mare. Aria (lost)

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