Rosa Giacinta Badalla (ca. 1660 – ca. 1710) was an Italian composer from the Milan area and

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. The first record of her is in the lists of the monastery of Saint Radegonda in

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from 1678. Claudia Sessa,

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, and

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were also active at Milanese convents during the same period. She had only one printed collection, ''Motetti a voce sola'' (1684, Venice), a book of

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s. Kendrick identifies it as "remarkable among Milanese solo motet books…for its patent vocal viruosity, motivic originality and self-assured compositional technique". There are also two surviving secular

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s, ''Vuò cercando'' (ca. 1680) and ''O fronde care'' (ca 1695), to which Badalla also wrote the text.Grove

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* *''The Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers'', edited by Julie Anne Sadie and Rhian Samuel. "Rosa Giacinta Badalla" Robert L. Kendrick, pg. 32, Norton and Company, New York and London, 1995.

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