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Camilla de Rossi
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women composersbaroqueitalian18th centuryearly galante
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Camilla de Rossi (fl. 1707 – 1710) was an Italian composer. Several women are known to have composed music in northern Italy and Austria during the period 1670-1725. Of those women, though there is no remaining biographical information, Camilla de Rossi by far has the most surviving works. The only known biographical detail about Camilla is her Roman citizenship. She always signed the title pages of her manuscripts as Romana, or a woman of Roman descent. Rossi composed four oratorios for solo voices and orchestra, all of which were commissioned by Emperor Joseph I of Austria and were performed in the Imperial Chapel. All of Rossi’s surviving works demonstrate an intimate knowledge of stringed instruments and, as Barbara Garvey Jackson describes, "a keen interest in tone color". Her pieces call for a combination of ensembles with chalumeau, archlute, and strings. While her four movement sinfonia, "Il Sacrifizio di Abramo," reveals her knowledge of instruments, strings in particular, but also demands a chalumeau, an instrument first heard in 1707, one year before her sinfonia was performed for the first time in 1708. Where she learned these skills as a musician and as a composer are entirely unknown as of today. Especially given the fact that she was a woman from Rome, she would not have hade access to the musical gatherings fostered by the pope and his cardinals. Although we may not know very much about Camilla de Rossi and her music, after listening to her compositions one t
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Il sacrifizio di Abram: Part I: Sinfonia
292Duol sofferto per Amore' (excerpt Sant'Alessio [1710])
183"Abramo Getting Sleep" from the Oratorio "The Sacrifice of Abramo" for Tenor, two Soprano Chalumeaux, Strings and Harpsichord
164Il sacrifizio di Abram: Part II: Aria: Morirai, figlio adorato (Abramo)
135Sant'Alessio, Pt. 1: Part I: Introduction - Se quel Dio che in ogni opra (Father, Mother)
136Cielo, pietoso Cielo (Sant' Alassio)
127Il sacrifizio di Abram: Part I: Recitative: Di genitor cadente (Sara)
128Il sacrifizio di Abram: Part I: Aria: Chi non rimira in cielo (Sara)
119Il sacrifizio di Abram: Part I: Aria: Dal sol ogn' astro apprende (Isacco)
1010Il sacrifizio di Abram: Part I: Recitative: Madre (Isacco)
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