Eva Dell'Acqua (28 January 185612 February 1930) was a Belgian singer and

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of Italian ancestry.

Biography

Eva Dell'Acqua was born in 1856 in

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, Brussels, Belgium, the daughter of the Italian painter

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and his wife Carolina van der Elst. She composed in the Romantic style and produced orchestral works, pieces for chamber orchestra, and other works for piano and solo voice, opera and stage. Dell'Acqua's song "Villanelle" for

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soprano has been widely performed and recorded, and has appeared on film soundtracks including ''

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'' (1942) and ''

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'' (1942). Dell'Acqua died on 12 February 1930 in

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, Brussels, Belgium.

Works

Selected works include: *"Villanelle" (1893) *"La bachelette" (1896) *"Le tambour battant" (1900) *"Je donnerais" (1908) *"Swallow's Waltz" (1909) *"Chanson Provençale" (1912) *"Le clavecin" (1917) *"Pierrot the Liar" (1918)

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