Composers of the day: December 09

COMPOSERS OF THE DAY:

DECEMBER 09

SANDRA ELIZABETH GONZÁLEZ - ARGENTINA

Born 09 December

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DAIJANA WALLACE - USA

Born 09 December

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09 DECEMBER 2019

MADDALENA LOMBARINI SIRMEN - ITÁLIA

BORN 09 DECEMBER

Maddalena Sirmen was an Italian composer, violinist, and singer.

Maddalena Laura Lombardini was born in Venice to poverty-stricken parents, noble by birth. She began her studies at the San Lazzaro dei Mendicanti (one of the four great hospices or Ospedali Grandi which trained orphaned girls in music) in Venice at the age of seven.

Hoping to play the violin professionally in a European classical scene almost entirely dominated by men, Lombardini was occasionally given permission to leave and study with the virtuoso violinist and composer Giuseppe Tartini (1692–1770). Tartini paid her tuition himself for musical lessons at the orphanage.

At age twenty-one, Lombardini received her maestro license at the orphanage, and was given permission to pursue a musical career outside of Venice. In 1767 she married the renowned violinist Ludovico Sirmen. The two began touring together that same year. Although little is documented about their relationship, it appears he encouraged Maddalena's career, respecting her compositions and relishing her successful solo career. Maddalena Lombardini soon established her reputation as one of the finest and most famous violinists and composers ever taught in a Venetian orphanage.

In 1771, she debuted her "Concerto on the Violin" in London, met by rave reviews and lavish support. Her compositions displayed the violin in all its virtuosic brilliance in the dynamic yet restrained early Classical tradition.

Lombardini visited London for a final time in 1772, performing as a vocalist. Although her career faded in its final years, she is remembered as a dynamic inventor and brilliant performer in 18th-century classical music.

Source: Wikipedia and Bristol Ensamble

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Concerto Per Violino e orchestra nº 6 op3 by Maddalena Lombardini Sirmen

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KATIA BEAUGEAIS - AUSTRALIA
BORN 09 DECEMBER

Katia Beaugeais is an award-winning French-Australian composer and saxophonist based in Sydney.

She is a Vandoren Paris and Selmer Sax Artist. Since winning the prestigious 2010 ISCM/IAMIC International Society for Contemporary Music Young Composer Award, Beaugeais’s music ranging from solo saxophone to full orchestra has been performed in America, Canada, Croatia, Slovakia, Austria, Scotland, Ireland, England, France, Peru, Taiwan, Thailand, Australia and New Zealand.

This year, Beaugeais is featured soloist-composer on an ABC Classics radio podcast, where she is interviewed and performs her latest soprano saxophone piece, Breath by Breath, alongside new Australian saxophone works composed specially for her.

Recent CD releases of her music include Like Snowdrops You will Shine, commissioned for the Australian Chamber Orchestra Collective/ABC Classics Hush Foundation CD, and First Light at Uluru, recorded by world-renowned didgeridoo player, William Barton, and the Royal Australian Navy Band. Beaugeais’s music was chosen for ACO’s 2019 worldwide selected playlist celebrating “incredible female artists” and shortlisted for ABC’s Classic 100.

Source: 100Sax and New Music Block

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First Light of Uluru by Katia Beaugeais

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