Cardiff University Chamber Choir- Coccia: Sacred Music (CD) Actors Mind Mausoleum

Mind Mausoleum

and comes to an unexpected conclusion with country coda 'Lacrymaturity'

I Was Just Being Friendly

It All Depends on You

While the songs were conceived in contemplative solitude

Cardiff University Chamber Choir- Coccia: Sacred Music (CD) Actors Mind MausoleumThe Roman Maria Rosa Coccia (1759 1833) was a musical phenomenon of almost Mozartian precocity, becoming the first female composer to be awarded the professional distinction of maestra di cappella at the age of fifteen. But the church could not contemplate the idea of a woman in charge of the music making in a religious establishment, and so she hit a stained glass ceiling; she seems to have given up composition in the mid 1780s, not yet 30. The