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MR Coccia - Sacred Music from Eighteenth-Century Rome | Toccata Classics TOCC0359

MR Coccia - Sacred Music from Eighteenth-Century Rome

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Label: Toccata Classics

Cat No: TOCC0359

Barcode: 5060113443595

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 4th October 2024

Contents

Artists

Cardiff University Chamber Choir
Peter Leech (organ)
Robert Court (organ)

Conductor

Peter Leech

Works

Bolis, Sebastiano

Assoluzzione (5)
» no.4

Casali, Giovanni Battista

Ad te levavi
Ave Maria a 4

Coccia, Maria Rosa

Dixit Dominus a 8 pieno
Harpsichord Sonatas (6), op.1
» no.1 in C major: II Andantino
» no.2 in C major: II Andantino
Hic vir despiciens mundum
Magnificat a 4 concertato
Veni creator spiritus a 4 concertato
Veni sponsa Christi

Pesci, Sante

Ave Maria a 4

Artists

Cardiff University Chamber Choir
Peter Leech (organ)
Robert Court (organ)

Conductor

Peter Leech

About

The Roman Maria Rosa Coccia (1759–1833) was a musical phenomenon of almost Mozartian precocity, becoming the first female composer to be awarded the professional distinction of maestra di cappella – at the age of fifteen. But the church could not contemplate the idea of a woman in charge of the music-making in a religious establishment, and so she hit a stained-glass ceiling; she seems to have given up composition in the mid-1780s, not yet 30. The freshness and buoyancy of her writing up to that point give an indication of what might have been.

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