Carlotta Ferrari

Carlotta Ferrari (27 January 1837 – 23 November 1907) was an Italian composer noted for opera.

Life

Carlotta Ferrari was born in Lodi, Italy, and studied singing and piano a the Milan Conservatory with Giuseppina Strepponi. Ferrari wrote her first opera Ugo at the age of twenty. Faced with a lack of interest, she raised funds for its first public production in Lecco and conducted the performances herself. Besides songs and opera, she published an autobiography and poetry and prose works in four volumes titled Versi e prose in Bologna from 1878-82. She died in Bologna.[1][2]

Works

Ferrari was a successful composer within her lifetime. She composed opera and cantata and was considered a master of canon. Selected works include:

References

  1. ^ Chiti, Patricia (1994). Italian Art Songs of the Romantic Era. 
  2. ^ Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994) (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers. http://books.google.com/books?id=IvoQQU1QL_QC&pg=PA167&dq=Carlotta+Ferrari+(1837%E2%80%931907)&hl=en&ei=rm8ATdH6FMG88gac-pWaBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CDgQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=Carlotta%20Ferrari%20(1837%E2%80%931907)&f=false. Retrieved 4 October 2010.