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Isabella Leonarda

1620 - 1704

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Isabella Leonarda (6 September 1620 – 25 February 1704) was an Italian composer from Novara. At the age of 16, she entered the Collegio di Sant'Orsola, an Ursuline convent, where she stayed for the remainder of her life. Leonarda is most renowned for the numerous compositions that she wrote during her time at the convent, making her one of the most productive female composers of her time. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Isabella Leonarda is the 627th most popular composer (down from 600th in 2019), the 2,272nd most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,191st in 2019) and the 110th most popular Italian Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Isabella Leonarda ranks 627 out of 1,451Before her are Luis de Milán, Bálint Bakfark, Johann Ludwig Krebs, Wilhelm Stenhammar, Giuseppe Sammartini, and Antonio Sacchini. After her are Johann Caspar Kerll, Franz Waxman, Stephen Foster, Jean-Féry Rebel, Ludwig Senfl, and Felip Pedrell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1620, Isabella Leonarda ranks 13Before her are Jean Picard, Miklós Zrínyi, Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Nicholas Mercator, and John Graunt. After her are Prince Georg Friedrich of Waldeck, Abraham van Beijeren, Masaniello, François Bernier, John Evelyn, and Albert II, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach. Among people deceased in 1704, Isabella Leonarda ranks 11Before her are Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia, Georg Muffat, Princess Frederica Amalia of Denmark, Jean-Baptiste Denys, and Charles Plumier. After her are Selim I Giray, John Charles, Count Palatine of Gelnhausen, Rudolph Augustus, Duke of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, Louis Bourdaloue, Menno van Coehoorn, and Francesco Provenzale.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Isabella Leonarda ranks 2,272 out of 5,161Before her are Édouard Herzen (1877), Giuseppe Sammartini (1695), Théodolinde de Beauharnais (1814), Giuseppe Betori (1947), Duris of Samos (-340), and Antonio Sacchini (1730). After her are Hippocrates of Gela (-600), Corax of Syracuse (-500), Aulus Atilius Calatinus (-250), Amadeus I, Count of Savoy (1016), Alessandro Salvio (1570), and Luigi Bertolini (1904).

Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Isabella Leonarda ranks 110Before her are Pietro Nardini (1722), Eduardo di Capua (1865), Riccardo Drigo (1846), Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli (1752), Giuseppe Sammartini (1695), and Antonio Sacchini (1730). After her are Ludwig Thuille (1861), Marc'Antonio Ingegneri (1535), Ildebrando Pizzetti (1880), Andrea Falconieri (1580), Francesco Canova da Milano (1497), and Giovanni Battista Vitali (1632).