Francesca Campana
Arie a una, due e tre voci
edited by Pelliccia and Francesco Tomasi

(Vocal Chamber Music, 13)

XXXVIII, 18 pp.; 21 x 29 cm
Intro and Apparatus in Italian and English

Francesca Campana’s Arie a una, due e tre voci, published in Rome by Robletti in October 1629, holds the distinction of being the first monographic collection of music by a female composer ever printed in town. Born in Rome around 1607, Francesca Campana was an acclaimed virtuoso singer and instrumentalist on the harpsichord and harp. Her publishing debut dated back to January 1629—two arias in a multi-composer compilation including Francesca Caccini, a well-known name among local music lovers. Campana had been well-established in Roman musical circles from a very young age, then married Giovan Carlo Rossi—a brother of the better-known Luigi Rossi—and we lose track of her. In her later years, she was to coach some of the Medici court virtuoso singers. The present edition hosts music alongside a historical reconstruction, aiming to reevaluate the repertoire by female composers within a broader 17th-century music context. What we see emerging around their almost forgotten names is the presence of noble patrons, such as the Barberinis, as well as some unexpectedly surviving items in collectors’ archives.

Chiara Pelliccia. teaches Musicology and Music history at the Licinio Refice Conservatory, Frosinone, and is a visiting professor in the DAMS programs at the University of Florence, SAGAS department, where she is part of the research unit called WIM - Women in Music: Social Identity, Careers, Practices in Italy Between the 17th and 19th Centuries. She has collaborations with such early-music ensembles and festivals as Ricercare Antico, Accademia Ottoboni, Roma Festival Barocco, and Ensemble Harmonia Urbis. In 2009, she was a researcher at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Rome. She then received fellowships from the Società Filarmonica di Trento (2013), the Italian Institute of Music History (2014), and the Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rome (2018). She was a postdoctoral researcher in the project Repräsentationen des Friedens im vormodernen Europa at the Leibniz Institute for European History, Mainz (2015-2018), in the ERC Consolidator Grants PerformArt project at the École Française de Rome (2018-2021), and at the University of Florence in the PRIN (Project of Relevant National Interest) called VIdiMUS – Virtuose di musica nell’Italia del Seicento (2022-2024). She has given papers in conferences in Italy and abroad and has published essays and articles. Her focus is on 17th-century virtuosos, chamber cantatas, and music patronage in the 17th and 18th centuries, with special reference to the Colonna family and Roman musical life between the 17th and 20th centuries. She edited Giovanni Lorenzo Lulier’s cantatas for SEdM.

Francesco Tomasi graduated in lute in 2009 from the Santa Cecilia Conservatory, Rome, under Andrea Damiani. In 2012, he earned a Master's degree in baroque guitar and theorbo with Rolf Lislevand at the Hochschule für Musik Trossingen. He has attended national and international master classes held by Paul O'Dette, Jakob Lindberg, Nigel North, and others. He collaborates with such ensembles as I Cameristi della Scala, I Barocchisti, Concerto Romano, Accademia Bizantina, Stefano Montanari’s Enea Baroque Orchestra, Francesco Cera’s Ensemble Arte Musica, and Musica Antiqua Latina. He has performed at major festivals and has recorded for Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Arcana, Brilliant Classics, and Christophorus. He founded and conducts the Ricercare Antico ensemble, which has performed at many festivals in Italy and abroad to wide acclaim, and also recorded two monographic CDs for Brilliant Classics: Giulio Caccini. Le Nuove Musiche and Francesca Campana. Arie a una, due e tre voci (world première). As a soloist, Tomasi recorded A due Leuti: Masterpieces for Renaissance Lute Duo for Da Vinci (2022), featuring Italian and Elizabethan music for two lutes. He is currently active as a soloist and continuo performer on the lute, theorbo, and Spanish guitar. He teaches lute at the Frescobaldi Conservatory, Ferrara.

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