Leonora Duarte

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Leonora Duarte (* baptized July 28, 1610 in Antwerp ; † around 1678) was a Flemish (then Spanish Netherlands ) composer of the Baroque .

Life

Leonora Duarte came from a wealthy Portuguese-Jewish merchant family who had settled in Antwerp. Thanks to her origins, she had excellent contacts with the upper class, including the English aristocracy. Leonora and her brother Diego Duarte (1612–1691) must have received extensive musical training on the viol , the lute and the harpsichord .

The manorial house of the Duartes, who were also art collectors, was the venue for numerous concerts and theater performances that Leonora organized together with her brother and well-known musicians of the time such as Nicholas Lanier .

Both siblings had a lot of correspondence with the diplomat, poet and composer Constantijn Huygens , who also came from Antwerp . Both were also active as composers. While no work by Diego has survived, there are seven symphonias by Leonora Duarte, which are basically small fantasies for a viol consort. The library at Christ Church College in Oxford has a copy of these works.

literature

  • Elizabeth A. Weinfield: Leonora Duarte (1610–1678): Converso Composer in Antwerp . The City University of New York, 2019, OCLC 1124577866 (English, 246 pp., Cuny.edu [accessed April 19, 2020] dissertation).

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Individual evidence

  1. Thierry Levaux: Le Dictionnaire des Compositeurs de Belgique du Moyen Age à nos jours , p 189, Editions: "Art in Belgium" in 2006, ISBN 2-930338-37-7