- Claudia Rusca
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Claudia Rusca (1593 – 6 October 1676) was an Italian female composer, singer, and organist. She was a nun at the Umiliate monastery of St. Caterina in Brera. She learned music at home, before she professed her final vows at the convent. She probably wrote her Sacri concerti à 1–5 con salmi e canzoni francesi (Milan, 1630) for use in the monastery and similar female institutions. The only known copy was destroyed in a fire at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in 1943.[1]
References
- Robert L. Kendrick. "Claudia Rusca", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (accessed November 6, 2006), grovemusic.com (subscription access).
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Categories:- 1593 births
- 1676 deaths
- Women composers
- Italian composers
- Baroque composers
- Italian singers
- Italian classical organists
- Italian Roman Catholic nuns
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