About Lucia Quinciani
Lived 1560 – 1601 (aged 40–41). Lucia Quinciani was an Italian composer and singer.
Lucia Quinciani (c. 1566, fl. 1611) was an Italian composer.
Life and music She is the earliest known published female composer of monody. She is known only by one composition, a setting of "Udite lagrimosi spirti d’Averno, udite", from Giovanni Battista Guarini's Il pastor fido, found in Marcantonio Negri's Affetti amorosi in which Negri refers to Quinciani as his student. She may have worked in Venice or Verona.
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Who was Lucia Quinciani?
Italian composer
When was Lucia Quinciani born?
Lucia Quinciani was born in 1560.
When did Lucia Quinciani die?
Lucia Quinciani died in 1601.
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Lucia Quinciani was a composer and singer.
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Lucia Quinciani was Italian.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Lucia Quinciani. https://biography.guide/lucia-quinciani/
MLA: "Lucia Quinciani." Biography.guide, https://biography.guide/lucia-quinciani/.
Chicago: "Lucia Quinciani." Biography.guide. https://biography.guide/lucia-quinciani/.
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