Madame Ravissa

Madame Ravissa de Turin (Genovieffa Bernardina Maria Vignola Ravissa de Turin) (mid 18th century – 20 February 1807) was an Italian singer and composer. She was from Turin, but apparently lived in Paris from 1778 until 1783.^[1] She published six sonatas for harpsichord in Paris in 1778, where she was described as Maîtresse de Clavecin et de Chant italien. A copy of the sonatas survived in the collection of Kaiser Franz II of Austria. In 1933 the manuscript was discovered in storage at the Steiermärkischer Musikverein [de] by musicologist Ernst Fritz Schmid, and is now housed at the Austrian National Library in Vienna.^[2] In 1778 her work was described in the Parisian Almanach as "bold modulations that the Italians love and our timorous composers do not dare to allow themselves".^[3]

Works

• Six Sonatas pour le Clavecin, Op. 1, Sonatas I–III by Madame Ravissa de Turin. Edited by Claudia Schweitzer. For harpsichord or period instrument and modern pianos. Furore Verlag. ISBN 979-0-50012-934-9 {{isbn}}: ignored ISBN errors (link). Sonatas IV–VI. ISBN 979-0-50012-960-8 {{isbn}}: ignored ISBN errors (link).