Gracia Baptista
Gracia Baptista (fl. 1557?) was a Spanish Roman Catholic nun and composer who lived in Ávila. Her setting of Conditor alme, published in 1557 in the Libro de cifra nueva para tecla, Arpa y Vihuela of Luis Venegas de Henestrosa, is the earliest keyboard work by an Iberian woman composer, the first published composition by a woman composer, and possibly the only surviving published keyboard work by an Iberian woman dating to before the eighteenth century.
Gracia Baptista
- Name
- Gracia Baptista
- Occupation
- Nun, composer
- Nationality
- Spain
- Languages
- English
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Gracia Baptista (fl. 1557?) was a Spanish Roman Catholic nun and composer who lived in Ávila. Her setting of Conditor alme, published in 1557 in the Libro de cifra nueva para tecla, Arpa y Vihuela of Luis Venegas de Henestrosa, is the earliest keyboard work by an Iberian woman composer, the first published composition by a woman composer, and possibly the only surviving published keyboard work by an Iberian woman dating to before the eighteenth century.
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• Background — royalblue • Name — Gracia Baptista • Religion — Catholic • Notable Works — Conditor alme (1557) • Denomination — Roman Catholic • Occupation — Nun, composer
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- 1.Women's Roles in the Renaissance. Greenwood Publishing Group. 2005. 978-0-313-32210-5.
- 2.Gracia Baptista, la primera compositora española « MusicaAntigua.com. www.musicaantigua.com.
- 3.Josemi. Lorenzo. Gracia Baptista, año 1557. La primera compositora europea con obra publicada. Audio Clasica. 146. n.d. 2021-11-07.
- 4.Judith Tick. Women in music. Grove Music Online. 2001.
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