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Barbara Strozzi
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Biography
Barbara Strozzi, a virtuoso singer and composer of vocal music, was born in Venice in 1619. She is one of the leading Italian composers of the 17th century. The adopted and probably illegitimate daughter of the poet Giulio Strozzi, she studied composition with Francesco Cavalli and joined the Accademia degli Incogniti of the writer Giovan Francesco Loredan, of which her father was a member.
In 1644, she published her first book of madrigals set to texts by her father, and in 1651, a new collection of cantatas, ariettes, and duets. By 1664, she had published 125 works across eight opus numbers, including madrigals, arias, and cantatas. She composed numerous vocal works for patrons such as the Doge of Venice Nicolò Sagredo, Ferdinand III of Habsburg, and Eleonore of Nevers-Mantua, as well as for Sophie of Bohemia, Duchess of Brunswick.
She died in Padua in 1677.
