Armonia Delle Sfere

Antonia Bembo: Produzione Armoniche. 1701 Armonia Delle Sfere

Within this new album the Armonia delle Sfere ensemble is delivering to us the complete Produzioni Armoniche work by Antonia Bembo, a collection of fourty one motets dedicated in 1701 to Louis xiv, the Roi Soleil, to whose court she landed after a series of vicissitudes occurred in Venice, her hometown, including the failure of a marriage

and important family disputes, for which she was deprived of his paternal inheritance. After being trained under the musical guidance of Francesco Cavalli (1602-1676), organist of the ducal chapel of San Marco, Antonia secretly married Lorenzo Bembo, a Venetian nobleman, from whom she had two children, and from whom in 1672

she herself asked divorce, due to the continuing absence of her husband, whom she also accused of continuing abuse and betrayal.