- Rosa Giacinta Badalla
Rosa Giacinta Badalla ("c." 1660 – "c." 1710) was an Italian composer and
Benedictine nun . The first record of her is in the lists of the monastery of Saint Radegonda inMilan from 1678.Claudia Sessa ,Claudia Rusca , andChiara 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
motet s. Kendrick identifies it as "remarkable among Milanese solo motet books…for its patent vocal viruosity, motivic originality and self-assured compositional technique". [Norton/Grove]There are also two surviving secular
cantata s, "Vuò cercando" and "O fronde care", to which Badalla wrote the text. [Grove]References
*GroveOnline|Rosa Giacinta Badalla|Robert L. Kendrick|July 12|2007
*"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 0-393-03487-9Notes
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