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Maddalena Maria Teresa Tua (23 April 1866 – 28 October 1956) was a prominent Italian violinist who demonstrated her musical talents from an early age.
Maddalena Maria Teresa Tua (23 April 1866 – 28 October 1956) was a prominent Italian violinist who demonstrated her musical talents from an early age.
Biography
Born inTurin
Turin ( , Piedmontese language, Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital ...
on 23 April 1866, Maddalena Maria Teresa Tua was the daughter of Antonio Tua, a mason and amateur violinist, and Marianna Rabino, a housewife who played the guitar. It was her father who initially taught her how to play but she made such rapid progress that after attending Bellini's opera ''La sonnambula
''La sonnambula'' (''The Sleepwalker'') is an opera semiseria in two acts, with music in the ''bel canto'' tradition by Vincenzo Bellini set to an Italian libretto by Felice Romani, based on a scenario for a ''ballet-pantomime'' written by Eu ...
'', she began to play the tunes she had heard.
When only seven, she walked around northern Italy on a concert tour with her parents. She entered the Paris Conservatoire
The Conservatoire de Paris (), also known as the Paris Conservatory, is a college of music and dance founded in 1795. Officially known as the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP), it is situated in the avenue ...
when she was 11, winning the Grand Prix for violin in 1880. She was widely acclaimed on her concert tours in the 1880s, filling the Opera House in Vienna in 1882 and performing in Germany, France, Spain and London. Her performances in the United States in 1887 were less successful and she soon returned to Europe where she married and settled in Rome. Touring Russia in 1895, she was accompanied by Rachmaninoff
Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff; in Russian pre-revolutionary script. (28 March 1943) was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one o ...
. In 1940, she joined a convent where she died in 1956.
Bibliography
* ''Teresina Tua, l'angelo del violino'', Luca Bianchini and Anna Trombetta, Daniela Piazza Publisher, 2006.References
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