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Caterina Martinell while preparing to sing the title role in Monteverdi,s dies at the at the age of 18.
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Benedictine nun Caterina Assandra publishes her 'Motetti'.
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Lucia Quinciani becomes the first woman to publish a monody,selling a text from Guarini's famous pastoral drama II pastor fido.
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Francesca Caccini publishes her Primo libro delle musiche.
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birth of Barbara Strozzi.
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Francesca Caccini's opera La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina is performed in Florence. It is the first opera composed by a woman.
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Jacquet de la Guerre's Te Deum is sung in Paris on the occasion of the recovery of the young Louis XV from smallpox
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Julie Pinel publishes a collection of French airs.
