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Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini (* 17 October 1720 in Milan; † 19 January 1795 in Milan) was an Italian composer and harpsichordist.

Life

The younger sister of mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi was born as the third child of Pietro Agnesi di Monteviglia. Her musical talent was soon recognised and she became a pupil of the violinist and composer Carlo Zuccari. One of her fellow pupils was Giorgio Giulini, who later took part in the founding of the ‘Accademia dei Trasformati’, of which Agnesi also became a member. In her performances as a harpsichordist, she mainly performed works by Jean-Philippe Rameau.

Agnesi’s first work, the shepherd cantata Il ristoro d’Arcadia, was performed in 1747 at the Teatro Ducale, the predecessor of La Scala in Milan. After Pietro Agnesi’s death in 1752, she was able to marry Pietro Antonio Pinottini, which her father had previously refused her. From this point onwards, she devoted herself almost exclusively to music, writing concertos, sonatas, fantasias and chamber arias as well as several operas, for some of which she also wrote the libretto herself.

When Leopold Mozart travelled to Italy in 1770 to present his son, he came into contact with Agnesi Pinottini, which presumably led to a lively exchange of ideas. No more works by Agnesi are known from the following year. She fell into a financial crisis and had to ask one of her sisters for help. Two years after the death of her husband, she died childless.

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