assandra

Updated: June 8, 2025

In Ricordi's modern collection of old Italian songs are some charming examples of her skill in other directions. In the domain of Italian sacred music, too, the women were not inactive. Catterina Assandra, at the beginning of the seventeenth century, wrote a number of religious works, of which "Veni Sancte Spiritus," for two voices, achieved more than passing fame.

Arthur Elson - Woman's Work in Music