Lucia Quinciani (c. 1566, fl.
She is the earliest known published female composer of monody.
[1] She is known only by one composition, a setting of "Udite lagrimosi spirti d’Averno, udite", from Giovanni Battista Guarini's Il pastor fido, found in Marcantonio Negri's Affetti amorosi [1] second volume (1611),[2] in which Negri refers to Quinciani as his student.
[2] She may have worked in Venice or Verona.
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