Lucia Contini Anselmi
Lucia Contini Anselmi (15 October 1876 – after 1913) was an Italian pianist and composer.
Life
[edit | edit source]She was born on 15 October 1876 in Vercelli, Piedmont.[1] was an Italian pianist and composer. She studied piano with Giovanni Sgambati and composition with Alessandro Parisotti at the Conservatory in Rome.[1] After completing her studies, she toured as a concert pianist in Italy and overseas. She received a gold medal for her piano work Ludentia at the International Competition for Composers at Perugia in 1913.[2][1] Contini Anselmi's fame allowed her a personal reception by Queen Margherita of Italy.[3]
Contini Anselmi composed more than thirty works, mostly for piano but also eight for orchestra, three for violin and piano. She also composed a ballet, Driadi e satiri (Dryads and Satyrs), and an operetta, La Sponda Magica (The Magic Shore), a fairy opera in three acts.[3] She published a treatise in 1908 Della tecnica per l’esecuzione della musica sul pianoforte e sua interpretazione (On the technique of performing music on the piano and its interpretation).[4]
Her death date is unknown, although it is generally agree that she died after 1913.[1][3] Some of her works were performed at the University of Melbourne in 2020.[4]
Works
[edit | edit source]Anselmi's works include compositions for orchestra, solo piano, violin and cello. Selected works include:
- Prelude
- Gavotte
- Minuet
- Sonata for Piano in C minor
- Sibylla Cumaea
- Ludentia
- Inno guerresco
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- 1876 births
- 19th-century Italian women composers
- 20th-century Italian women composers
- Italian Romantic composers
- Italian classical composers
- Italian classical pianists
- Italian women classical composers
- Italian women classical pianists
- People from Vercelli
- 19th-century women pianists
- 20th-century Italian women pianists