Barbara Strozzi

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Barbara Strozzi grew up in Venice in the household of the poet Giulio Strozzi, probably her father, who had her take lessons with the composer Francesco Cavalli. She sang in the academy he founded and between 1644 and 1664 published eight collections of her own music, without the support of a court or convent. In the Venice of her day, no one else had more secular vocal music in print. Her arias and cantatas follow the text closely, often over a constantly recurring bass line.

Listening

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  L'Eraclito amoroso (Anne Sofie von Otter, Jakob Lindberg) · Barbara Strozzi, 1651
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  Che si può fare? (Simone Kermes, La Magnifica Comunità) · Barbara Strozzi, 1664
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  Lagrime mie (Emanuela Galli, Ensemble Galilei) · Barbara Strozzi, 1659

See also

• Early opera
• Concerto and sonata
• Claudio Monteverdi