Alba Tressina

Santa Maria in Araceli, 80 km from Venice

Alba Tressina (fl. 1620s) was a nun composer in 17th Century Italy. She was a Carmelite at Santa Maria in Araceli (Vicenza). She is known only from her teacher Leone Leoni (composer) having preserved and published four of her works.^[1][2][3] Leoni dedicated his Quarto Libro, 1622, to this pupil.^[4]

Works

• Vulnerasti cor meum A
• Quaemadmodum A
• In nomine Iesu AA
• Anima mea AAT

References

1. ↑ L Johnson - 2009 Pain, Desire, and Unattainable Ecstasy in Alba Tressina's Vulnerasti Cor Meum "Little is known about the seventeenth-century musician and composer Alba Tressina, and even less is known about her musical career, since ..."
2. ↑ HOASM: Alba Tressina "Italian composer and Carmelite nun at the convent of Santa Maria in Aracoeli in Vicenza. Her only known works are found in a work by her teacher, Leone Leoni, ..."
3. ↑ Vulnerasti cor meum - Artemisia Editions "Alba Tressina: 4 Motets (1-3 voices) & motets (2-4 voices and violins) by Leone Leoni (CC-05a)."
4. ↑ Catalogo della Biblioteca del Liceo musicale de Bologna, Conservatorio di musica "G.B. Martini.", Gaetano Gaspari, Federico Parisini - 1890 (A tergo del frontispizio sta impressa la dedicatoria che segue): Alla Molto Illustre e molto Reverenda S. Alba Tressina Monacha in Araceli di Vicenza. Signora Osseruandissìma. Sgombra la Musica, quasi come de smisi Regina, i noiosi ...