Cardiff University Chamber Choir: Coccia: Sacred Music - COMPACT DISCS

Cardiff University Chamber Choir: Coccia: Sacred Music - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

Coccia: Sacred Music

Artist:

Cardiff University Chamber Choir

Label:

Toccata

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

5060113443595

Genre:

Classical Artists

Release Date:

2024-10-04

Number of Discs:

1

The Roman Maria Rosa Coccia (1759-1833) was a musical phenomenon of almost Mozartian precocity, becoming the first female composer to be awarded the professional distinction of maestra di cappella - at the age of fifteen. But the church could not contemplate the idea of a woman in charge of the music-making in a religious establishment, and so she hit a stained-glass ceiling; she seems to have given up composition in the mid-1780s, not yet 30. The freshness and buoyancy of her writing up to that point give an indication of what might have been.

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