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Antonia Bembo
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women composersbaroqueoperaClassicalearly music
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Antonia Bembo (ca. 1640 – ca. 1720) was an Italian composer and singer. She was born in Venice and died in Paris. She was the daughter of Giacomo Padoani, a doctor, and married Lorenzo Bembo in 1659. She moved to Paris before 1676, possibly to leave a bad marriage. There she sang for Louis XIV. Louis granted her a pension and housing at Petite Union Chrétienne des Dames de Saint Chaumont, a religious community. She was a contemporary of Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre. Six volumes of Bembo's music survive in manuscript in six volumes at the Bibliothèque nationale de France as the Produzioni armoniche, most of them dedicated to Louis XIV. These contain a certain amount of autobiographical information, which has been corroborated through other sources. She was taught by Francesco Cavalli (who also taught Barbara Strozzi) by 1654 and wrote in all the major genres of the time, including opera, secular and sacred cantatas, petit and grand motets. Her work is a combination of French and Italian styles. She uses the virtuosic elements of Italian style of the period, as well as French dance forms. Much of her work is for soprano voice with continuo accompaniment. Her opera was L'Ercole amante (1707), to a libretto by Francesco Buti. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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Bembo: Produzioni armoniche
Antonia Bembo: L'Ercole Amante
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Donne barocche
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Produzioni Armoniche
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Produzioni Armoniche [Maria Jonas, Convoce.Coeln]
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L'Ercole amante
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Wonder Women
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Vox Feminae
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Donne Barocche: Women Composers from the Baroque Period
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L'Ercole Amante (2023, Halubek)
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Produzione armoniche
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La Vendetta