Maddalena Laura Lombardini (1745-1818) - Concerto di Violino con' Diversi Istrumenti Obbligati

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Composer: Maddalena Laura Lombardini [Sirmen] (1745-1818)
Work: Concerto di Violino con' Diversi Istrumenti Obbligati (c.1772)
Performers: AngéIica Gámеz (violin); Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Colombia; Lina GonzáIеz Granados (dirección)

Painting: Pompeo Batoni (1708-1787) - The Triumph of Venice (c.1737)
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Maddalena (Madelena) Laura Lombardini [Sirmen, Syrmen]
(Venice, 9 December 1745 - Venice, 18 May 1818)

Italian composer, violinist and singer. Unusually for a woman composer at that time, there appear to have been no other musicians in her family and she became famous entirely through her own efforts. In 1753 she was admitted to the Ospedale dei Mendicanti in Venice, not as an orphan but as a musician who would be an asset to their all-female choir and orchestra. She must have been an outstanding violinist since in 1760 she was allowed to go to Padua to study with Tartini; as the lessons were delayed, Tartini wrote her a long letter explaining his violin playing methods and the best way to practise. It was copied in Padua before it was sent and by 1770 it was in print in Italy, shortly followed by translations into English (by Charles Burney), German and French. Sirmen was probably taught composition by the maestro di coro at the Ospedale, Ferdinando Bertoni, and probably also by Tartini. The dates of her compositions are unknown, but as most of them were in print before 1774 they may have been composed while she was still at the Ospedale. In 1766, after 13 years at the Ospedale, she wanted to leave. Tartini tried unsuccessfully to find her a husband, but in the next year she married the violinist and composer Lodovico Sirmen (1738-1812). In 1768 the couple started a highly successful European tour, playing in Turin and several times at the Concert Spirituel in Paris, where six of her string quartets were published in 1769. Although the title page says ‘Composta Da Lodovico, E Madelena Laura Syrmen’, stylistic evidence indicates that they are entirely her own work.

In January 1771 Lodovico was settled in Ravenna with their daughter and Maddalena was in London, advertised as ‘the celebrated Mrs Lombardini Sirmen’. She had two very successful seasons there as a violinist, playing in various concert series (including the Bach-Abel concerts) and at the theatres, followed by a third when she became a singer. Her six violin concertos were published in 1772-73, followed in 1773 by keyboard arrangements of them by Tommaso Giordani. After London she played or sang in various Italian cities, in Paris, Dresden and as principal woman singing at St Petersburg (1783). In 1785 she appeared again at the Concert Spirituel, playing her own violin concertos, but was criticized for her old-fashioned manner. She then settled in Venice and Ravenna, where she spent the rest of her life. Sirmen's music was widely known during her lifetime. A violin concerto was played in Stockholm in 1774, and in a letter from Salzburg of 12 April 1778, to his wife and son Wolfgang, Leopold Mozart said: ‘After the symphony Count Czernin played a beautifully written concerto by Sirmen’. The string quartets, mostly in two movements, are notable for their interesting inner parts. The first movements of the violin concertos are generally in an embryonic sonata form, the slow movements in binary and the finales in rondo form. Her music was widely published and frequently reprinted by several different publishers in Paris, the Low Countries, Germany and London.