The Ospedali Grandi: How Abandoned Girls Became Virtuosi.

The Ospedali Grandi: How Abandoned Girls Became Virtuosi.

Meget interessant læsning om berømte pigekor, som bestod af forældreløse eller efterladte piger og hvis optræden (performances) fascinerede folk dybt, i 1300- og 1400-tallets Italien. Vivaldi, den berømte komponist, arbejdede med disse pigekor, han var i øvrigt åbenbart også præst - nyt for mig. "CHAPTER 1: The Ospedali Grandi: How Abandoned Girls Became Virtuosi ..... In 1743, Jean-Jacques Rousseau visited the Ospedale dei Mendicanti, a hospice in Venice, to hear its all-girl choir perform a concert. He described the music as “far superior to that of the opera, and which has not its like, either in Italy or the rest of the world.”1 What he heard was an anomaly, distinctive to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Italy. Except for the occasional opera star, European society ordinarily looked down upon women performing music publicly. Nevertheless, the Mendicanti and other Venetian hospices, henceforth ospedali, grew into grand conservatories and taught music to displaced and orphaned girls. Visitors from around the continent came to the ospedali to hear performances containing virtuosic solos, complex musical techniques, and rich expressive devices".

Min videredeling af dette grundige og frit tilgængelige akademiske arbejde betyder ikke at jeg anbefaler eller deler synspunkt med alt det, der står i det.  

https://d.lib.msu.edu/islandora/object/etd:1929/datastream/OBJ/view    https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/vivaldi-the-four-seasons/288519596