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In Ancona, Italian composer, Maria Nascinbeni was a student of Scipione Lazzarini, an Augustinian monk and music teacher. He ensured publication of her first motet in his book of compositions, Motetti a due e tre voce in 1674. In that same year, when she was just 16 years of age, she published a volume of 14 Canzoni e Madrigali morali e spirituali a una, due and tre voce e organo (Moral and spiritual songs and madrigals voice and organ). They are devotional madrigals in Italian dedicated to Donna Olimpia Aldobrandini, Principessa di Rossano, a Roman noblewoman. Despite her religious compositions, there is no record that Nascinbeni was a nun, and all of what is known of her life and her music is derived from the introductions from her published compositions.

Music

The following selections are recommended for vocal study and programming on recitals and concerts. Please note that this list may not constitute the entirety of the composer's output. 

Recordings

Sources

Garvey Jackson, Barbara. “Maria Francesca Nascinbeni.” Women composers : music through the ages, vol 2, edited by Martha Furman Schleifer, and Sylvia Glickman. GK Hall, 1996, p. 248.

Glickman, Sylvia,and Martha Furman Schleifer, editors. From Convent to Concert Hall, A Guide to Women Composers. Greenwood Press, 2003.

Sadie, Julie Ann, and Rhian Samuel, editors. The Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers. W.W. Norton and Co. 1995.