Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana

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Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana (born July 3, 1590 in Bologna , † May 7, 1662 ibid) was an Italian composer of the Baroque .

Life

The daughter of an aristocratic Bolognese family and her sister were given to the Camaldolese monastery of Santa Christina in Bologna at the age of 8 ; this had a special name because of its music. She probably received music lessons there from her aunt Camilla Bombacci, the organist, novice master and later abbess of the monastery, and from the organist of S. Petronio (and unofficial conductor of the monastery) Ottavio Vernizzi (1549–1649). Adriano Banchieri , Gabriele Fattorini , and others A. dedicated works for two choirs to the monastery, which indicates concertante choir practice in the monastery. She became a novice at the age of eleven and made her perpetual vows in 1606. Vizzana composed the motets of the Componimenti musicali in the style of the Seconda pratica .

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Her collection of 20 motets in Latin (with the Latin spelling of her first name Lucretia in the title)

published it in 1623 and dedicated it to the nuns of her monastery, "alle monache di Santa Cristina in Bologna". It is a sheet music print for 1 to 4 voices, printed in Venice by Bartholomeo Magni. The sacred chants (motets) in the concert style are mostly one or two voices, with accompanying figured bass . Only the last two pieces are 3- or 4-part. Her compositional style, "which can be compared with the best products of her colleagues", is described in detail by the specialist in Italian vocal music of the 17th century Gunther Morche in his article Vizana, [or] Vizzana, Lucretia Orsina in MGG 2.

Editions

  • A practical edition of it was published in 2002 in Cologne by Bernd Christoph Becker (parts with continuo accompaniment) as a facsimile of the edition from 1623
  • The work is available as a score in a modern edition : Edition Baroque, 2015

literature

  • Robert Eitner : Biographical-bibliographical source lexicon of musicians and music scholars of the Christian era up to the middle of the 19th century . tape 10 . Breitkopf & Haertel, Leipzig 1904, DNB  1078412251 , p. 117 ( uzh.ch [PDF; 6.4 MB ; accessed on January 6, 2018]).
  • Carlo Schmidl: Dizionario universale dei musicisti. - Milan: Sonzogno, 1937–1938.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bernhard Morbach: Women in a man's world - women composers of the baroque . In: Bernhard Morbach: Die Musikwelt des Barock , Bärenreiter Kassel 2008, ISBN 978-3-7618-1716-2 , p. 245 f.
  2. ↑ Craig Monson: Article Vizzana [Vizana], Lucrezia Orsina in: Julie Anne Sadie, Rhian Samuel (Eds.): The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers , Macmillan 1996 (New York 1994), ISBN 0-333-515986 , pp. 479/80.
  3. ^ Title after Eitner and IMSLP
  4. ↑ Music in Past and Present 2nd Edition, Supplement columns 1040/1041. With further references.
  5. ^ According to the catalog of the German National Library
  6. ^ According to the catalog of the German National Library
personal data
SURNAME Vizzana, Lucrezia Orsina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vizana, Lucretia Orsina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian composer of the early baroque
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1590
PLACE OF BIRTH Bologna
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1662
Place of death Bologna