Caterina Assandra

Life

Born: ca. 1590

Died: after 1618

Biography

Caterina Assandra was an Italian composer and Benedictine nun. In her surviving motet book, Motetti a due e tre voci op.2, Assandra alludes to her birthplace being in the Province of Pavia. She became famous as an organist and published various works during her lifetime. Her work, Motetti a due, was dedicated to G.B. Biglia, the Bishop of Pavia, and was first recognized by publisher Lomazzo. Although Assandra had accumulated a substantial reputation for her works as a composer, even reaching outside the borders of Italy, she was at times confused with another 18th-century composer with the same name. And although the date of her birth is approximate, the date of her death is still unknown. (Source: Wikipedia)

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List of choral works

• Audite caeli
• Duo Seraphim
• En dilectus meus
• Factum est silentium
• Impetum fecerunt
• O bone Iesu
• O dulcis amor Jesu
• O salutaris hostia

 

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Publications

• Motetti à dua e trè voci, Op. 2 (Milan: Tini & Lomazzo, 1609)

External links

• Works by Caterina Assandra in the Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP)