Olivia Appleby - Travel back in singing History

Caterina Martinell 7th 1608

Mar 7, 1608

Caterina Martinell while preparing to sing the title role in Monteverdi,s dies at the at the age of 18.

1609 Caterina Asandra

Feb 4, 1609

Benedictine nun Caterina Assandra publishes her 'Motetti'.

1611 Lucia Quinciani

Jun 5, 1611

Lucia Quinciani becomes the first woman to publish a monody,selling a text from Guarini's famous pastoral drama II pastor fido.

1618 Francesca Caccini

Dec 31, 1618

Francesca Caccini publishes her Primo libro delle musiche.

1619 Barbara Strozzi

May 14, 1619

birth of Barbara Strozzi.

Francesca Caccini 1625

Feb 3, 1625

Francesca Caccini's opera La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina is performed in Florence. It is the first opera composed by a woman.

Jacquet de la Guerre 1721

Aug 5, 1721

Jacquet de la Guerre's Te Deum is sung in Paris on the occasion of the recovery of the young Louis XV from smallpox

Julie Pinel 1736

Apr 24, 1736

Julie Pinel publishes a collection of French airs.