Lucia Quinciani
{{Short description|Italian composer (fl. 1611)}}
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Lucia Quinciani (c. 1566, fl. 1611) was an Italian composer.
Life and music
She is the earliest known published female composer of monody.Thomas W. Bridges. "Lucia Quinciani", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (accessed November 5, 2006), [http://www.grovemusic.com/ grovemusic.com] (subscription access). She is known only by one composition, a setting of "Udite lagrimosi spirti d’Averno, udite", from Giovanni Battista Guarini's Il pastor fido, found in Marcantonio Negri's Affetti amorosi second volume (1611),Gary Tomlison (ed). Italian secular song, 1606-1636 : a seven-volume reprint collection. Vol. 5 in which Negri refers to Quinciani as his student. She may have worked in Venice or Verona.
References
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External links
- "[http://imslp.org/wiki/%22Udite_lagrimosi_spirti_d%27Averno,_udite%22_(Quinciani,_Lucia) Udite lagrimosi spirti d’Averno, udite]" on IMSLP
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Category:Italian women classical composers
Category:Italian Renaissance composers
Category:Italian Baroque composers
Category:17th-century Italian composers
Category:17th-century Italian women composers
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