Lucia Quinciani (c. 1566, fl. 1611) was an Italian composer.
Life and music
She is the earliest known published female composer of
monody.
[Thomas W. Bridges. "Lucia Quinciani", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (accessed November 5, 2006), grovemusic.com (subscription access).] 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 second volume (1611),
[Gary Tomlison (ed). Italian secular song, 1606-1636 : a seven-volume reprint collection. Vol. 5] in which Negri refers to Quinciani as his student.
She may have worked in Venice or
Verona.
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