A portrait of Isabella Leonarda (1620-2020) and other nun composers

Many important phenomena of Western Baroque music originated in Italy, however the vast majority of authors known today are male, although there is a vast production of female music (both compositions and performances), largely linked to female monasteries, which only a few years ago was studied, transcribed and proposed in concert.

The concert of the Cappella Artemisia proposes an itinerary in the sacred production of five important composers of the  Italian seventeenth century. Among them, Isabella Leonarda (1620-1704), known as the "Muse from Novara", is outstanding; she was mother superior in the convent of the Ursulines of Galliate (Novara).