17th-century women composers

The list 17th-century women composers includes Francesca Caccini, Esther Elizabeth Velkiers, Claudia Sessa, Claudia Rusca and Caterina Assandra. The list consists of 29 members and 1 sublist.

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Francesca Caccini

Italian composer

Overview: Francesca Caccini (18 September 1587 – after 1641) was an Italian composer, singer, lutenist, poet, and music teacher of the early Baroque era. She was also known by the nickname "La Cecchina" given to ...

Date of birth: 1587

Date of death: 1641

Age: 53 (age at death)

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Female

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Musicians from Florence 78T

17th-century Italian composers 201T

Italian Baroque composers 337T
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Claudia Sessa

Composer

Overview: Claudia Sessa (c. 1570 – c. 1617/19) was an Italian composer and singer/instrumentalist. She was born into the (de) Sessa family, a patrician clan of the Milanese aristocracy. A nun at the convent ...

Date of birth: 1570

Date of death: 1617

Age: 46 (age at death)

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Female

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17th-century Italian composers 201T

Italian Baroque composers 337T

17th-century Italian women 57T
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Esther Elizabeth Velkiers

Composer

Overview: Esther Elizabeth Velkiers (1640 – after 1685) was a Swiss singer, musician and composer.

Date of birth: 1640

Date of death: 1685

Age: 44 (age at death)

Nationality: Swiss

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Female

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Genevan scholars 7T

Swiss female composers 10T

Swiss classical composers 92T
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Leonora Baroni

Italian lutenist and composer

Overview: Leonora Baroni (December 1611 – 6 April 1670) was an Italian singer, theorbist, lutenist, viol player, and composer.

Date of birth: 1611

Date of death: 1670

Age: 58 (age at death)

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Female

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17th-century Italian composers 201T

17th-century women singers 3T

17th-century women musicians 4T
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Claudia Rusca

Italian composer, singer, and organist

Overview: Claudia Rusca (1593 – 6 October 1676) was an Italian composer, singer, and organist.

Date of birth: 1593

Date of death: 1676

Age: 82 (age at death)

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Female

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17th-century Italian Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns 17T

17th-century Italian composers 201T

Women organists 151T
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Mme Sicard

French composer

Overview: Mme Sicard (first name unknown, fl. 1678) was a French composer, credited as the first published woman composer of her country.

Nationality: French

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Female

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French Baroque composers 205T

17th-century French musicians 10T

French female classical composers 106T
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Adriana Basile

Italian composer and singer

Overview: Adriana Basile (c. 1580 – c. 1640) was an Italian composer and singer.

Date of birth: 1580

Date of death: 1640

Age: 59 (age at death)

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Female

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17th-century Italian composers 205T

17th-century women singers 4T

17th-century Italian women 59T
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Brigida Bianchi

Italian stage actress

Overview: Brigida Bianchi (1613–1703) was an Italian stage actress.

Date of birth: 1613

Date of death: 1703

Age: 89 (age at death)

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Female

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Francesca Campana

Composer

Overview: Francesca Campana (ca. 1615, d. 1665) was a spinet player, and composer. She was born in Rome, thought to be the daughter of Andrea Campana, wife of the composer Giovan Carlo Rossi and sister-in-law of ...

Date of death: 1665

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Female

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17th-century Italian composers 201T

Italian Baroque composers 337T

17th-century Italian women 57T
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Mlle Guédon de Presles

Singer and composer

Overview: Anne Madeleine Guédon de Presles, known as Mlle Guédon de Presles (b. early 18th century - c. 1754) was a French singer, composer and actress.

Date of death: 1754

Nationality: French

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Female

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18th-century women composers 65T

French Baroque composers 197T

18th-century French composers 165T
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Françoise-Charlotte de Senneterre Ménétou

Composer

Overview: Françoise-Charlotte de Senneterre Ménétou (1679 – 4 November 1745) was a French harpsichordist and composer.

Date of birth: 1679

Date of death: 4 November 1745

Age: 66 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Female

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Elisabeth Sophie of Mecklenburg

German poet, composer and impresario (1613–1676)

Overview: Elisabeth Sophie of Mecklenburg, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (20 August 1613 – 12 July 1676) was a German poet, composer and impresario.

Date of birth: 20 August 1613

Date of death: 1676

Age: 62 (age at death)

Nationality: German

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Female

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17th-century German women writers 10T

New House of Brunswick 23T

German Baroque composers 294T
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Chiara Margarita Cozzolani

Italian composer

Overview: Chiara Margarita Cozzolani (27 November 1602 – ca. 1676–1678), was a Baroque music composer, singer and Benedictine nun. She spent her adult life cloistered in the convent of Santa Radegonda, Milan, where ...

Date of birth: 1602

Date of death: 1676

Age: 73 (age at death)

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Female

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17th-century Italian composers 201T

Italian Baroque composers 337T

17th-century Italian women 57T
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Lucia Quinciani

Italian composer

Overview: Lucia Quinciani (c. 1566, fl. 1611) was an Italian composer. She is the earliest known published female composer of monody. She is known only by one composition, a setting of "Udite lagrimosi spirti d ...

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Female

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17th-century Italian composers 201T

Italian Baroque composers 337T

Italian female classical composers 41T
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Mlle Bocquet

Lutenist and composer

Overview: Mlle Bocquet (either Anne or Marguerite) (early 17th century–after 1660) was a French lutenist and composer. She ran a Salon with a Mlle de Scudéry from 1653–1659. She was in contact with members and ...

Nationality: French

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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French Baroque composers 197T

French salon-holders 99T

French male classical composers 885T
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Isabella Leonarda

Italian composer

Overview: Isabella Leonarda (6 September 1620 – 25 February 1704) was an Italian composer from Novara. At the age of 16, she entered the Collegio di Sant'Orsola, an Ursuline convent, where she stayed for the re ...

Date of birth: 6 September 1620

Date of death: 25 February 1704

Age: 83 (age at death)

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Female

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17th-century Italian composers 201T

Italian Baroque composers 337T

17th-century Italian women 57T
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Amalia Catharina

German, Composer

Overview: Amalia Catharina (8 August 1640 – 4 January 1697), Countess of Erbach-Erbach [de], was a German poet and composer. She was born in Arolsen to Count Philipp Theodor von Waldeck-Eisenberg and the ...

Date of birth: 1640

Date of death: 1697

Age: 56 (age at death)

Nationality: German

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Female

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17th-century German composers 8T

German Baroque composers 294T

German women composers 53T
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Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

French musician

Overview: Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (full name Élisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre; born Élisabeth Jacquet, 17 March 1665, Paris – 27 June 1729, Paris) was a French musician, harpsichordist and composer.

Date of birth: 17 March 1665

Date of death: 27 June 1729

Age: 64 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Female

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Vittoria Aleotti

Italian composer and organist

Overview: Vittoria Aleotti (c. 1575 – after 1620), believed to be the same as Raffaella Aleotta (c. 1570 – after 1646) was an Italian Augustinian nun, a composer and organist.

Date of birth: 1575

Date of death: 1620

Age: 44 (age at death)

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Female

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17th-century Italian Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns 17T

16th-century Italian Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns 15T

Musicians from Ferrara 24T
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Caterina Assandra

Italian nun and composer

Overview: Caterina Assandra (c. 1590 – after 1618) was an Italian composer and Benedictine nun. In her surviving motet book, Motetti a due a tre voci op.2, Assandra alludes to her birthplace being in the Province ...

Date of birth: 1590

Date of death: 1618

Age: 27 (age at death)

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Female

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17th-century Italian Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns 17T

Musicians from Pavia 13T

17th-century Italian composers 201T