About Alba Tressina
Lived 1622 – 1638 (aged 15–16). Alba Tressina was an Italian composer.
Alba Trissina (fl. 1590) or Alba Tressina, was an Italian composer and nun.
She was a Carmelite at the monastery of Santa Maria in Araceli, Vicenza, and studied with Leone Leoni, who also preserved and published four of her works. Leoni dedicated his Quarto Libro, 1622, to this pupil.
Works Four motets for alto voice in Leoni's Sacri fiori: quarto libro de motettia are all of her compositions that survive. Vulnerasti cor meum, A: her most noted work = Quaemadmodum, A In nomine Iesu, AA Anima mea, AAT
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Italian composer
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Alba Tressina was born in 1622.
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Alba Tressina died in 1638.
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Alba Tressina was a composer.
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Alba Tressina was Italian.
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