La Sofonisba: Overture. Maria Teresa Agnesi

Name: La Sofonisba Track: Overture Composer: Maria Teresa Agnesi Live Performance 2010 Old South Church, Gordon Chapel, 645 Boylston St, Boston MA 02116 ℗ & © 2010 La Donna Musicale, Inc ===================================================================== Maria Teresa Agnesi (October 17, 1720 – January 19, 1795) was an Italian composer. Though she was most famous for her compositions, she was also an accomplished harpsichordist and singer, and the majority of her surviving compositions were written for keyboard, the voice, or both. Maria Teresa was born in Milan to Pietro Agnesi, an overbearing man in the lesser nobility. He provided early education for both Maria Teresa and her more famous older sister, Maria Gaetana, a mathematics and language prodigy who lectured and debated all over Europe while her sister performed. Maria Teresa was married to Pier Antonio Pinottini on June 13, 1752, and they settled in a district populated by intellects and artists, but e