Rosa Giacinta Badalla

Rosa Giacinta Badalla (ca. 1660 – ca. 1710) was an Italian composer from the Milan area and Benedictine nun. She was at the convent of Saint Radegonda in Milan from 1678. Badalla had only one printed collection, Motetti a voce sola (1684, Venice), a book of solo motets. Kendrick identifies it as “remarkable among Milanese solo motet books…for its patent vocal viruosity, motivic originality and self-assured compositional technique”. There are also two surviving secular cantatas, Vuò cercando (ca. 1680) and O fronde care (ca 1695), to which Badalla also wrote the text. Life Rosa Giacinta Badalla was born ca. 1660. was an Italian composer from the Milan area, possibly Bergamo, Badalla had only one printed collection, Motetti a voce sola (1684, Venice), a book of solo motets. Kendrick identifies it as “remarkable among Milanese solo motet books…for its patent vocal virtuosity, motivic originality and self-assured compositional technique”. There are also two surviving secular cantatas by Badalla, Vuò cercando (ca. 1680) and O fronde care (ca 1695), References Further reading * Free scores by Rosa Giacinta Badalla at the International Music Score Library Project * Free scores by Rosa Gia