classical music

Question 2

Her only surviving stage work, La liberazione di Ruggiero, is widely considered the oldest opera by a woman composer.

Answer 2

Francesca cACCINI

Question 3

Which Venetian musician was the most prolific composer of printed secular music
in the 17th century despite never receiving patronage from the church or nobility?
As well as writing cantatas and ariettas, she would perform as a soprano and
lutenist.

Answer 3

Barbara Strozzi

Question 4

Composition for Four Instruments and Composition for Twelve Instruments are among the serialist works of which American composer who pioneered electronic music with his colleague Roger Sessions? With Vladimir Ussachevsky ad Otto Luenig, he advised on the development of the RCA Mark II, the first programmable electronic synthesiser.

Answer 4

Milton BABBITT