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Bianca Maria Meda (c. 1665 – c. 1700) was an Italian composer.

Life

So far, no reference to Bianca Maria Medas life has been found. Only her name, which first appears in the documents of the Benedictine monastery of San Martino del Leano in Pavia in 1677. She would have been 16 years old, the age at which young girls entered convents according to the customs of the time. She was a Benedictine nun in the monastery of San Martino del Leano in Pavia.1

When Meda was about thirty years old, the Bolognese publisher Pier Maria Monti published, according to earlier assumptions (1691), her only known compositions: “Mottetti a 1, 2, 3, e 4 voci”. With this collection, Meda became one of the last nun composers in Italy whose works were printed in the seventeenth century; she was followed only by Isabella Leonarda, an Ursuline nun from Novara and the most prolific composer of that century.

Little is known about Bianca Maria Meda apart from the information on the title page of the edition: her name, her title: donna (indicating her position in a Benedictine convent) and the name of the convent where she lived: San Martino del Leano in Pavia. All the additional information is the result of research carried out many years ago by the musicologist Emily Wilbourne.

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