Lucia Quinciani (c. 1566, ''fl.'' 1611) was an Italian composer.

Life and music

She is the earliest known published female composer of

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.Thomas W. Bridges. "Lucia Quinciani", ''

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(subscription access). She is known only by one composition, a setting of "Udite lagrimosi spirti d’Averno, udite", from

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's ''Il pastor fido'', found in Marcantonio Negri's ''Affetti amorosi'' second volume (1611),Gary Tomlison (ed). Italian secular song, 1606-1636 : a seven-volume reprint collection. Vol. 5 in which Negri refers to Quinciani as his student. She may have worked in Venice or

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Udite lagrimosi spirti d’Averno, udite
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