Genovieffa Vignola-Ravissa (c.1745-1807) - Sonate pour le clavecin (1778)

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Composer: Genovieffa Vignola-Ravissa (c.1745-1807)
Work: Sonate (VI, Re majeur) pour le clavecin des 'Six sonates pour le clavecin ou le forte piano, par Mme. Ravissa de Turin, maîtresse de clavecin et de chant italien', œuvre I (1778)
Software: Sibelius + Instruments samples
World Premiere: No
Real performance: https://youtu.be/kOPKwEiIUEA
Sheet music (pdf): https://www.musicalion.com/es/scores/partituras/199316/genovieffa-ravissa/33567/sonata-vi
Sheet music (xml): https://www.mediafire.com/file/a0juopq94vh2yhq/RAVISSA-SonataVI.xml/file

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Genovieffa Vignola [Ravissa, Madame Ravissa de Turin, Ravissard]
(Turin, c.1745 - Lausanne, 20 February 1807)

Italian teacher, singer and composer. His early years remain unknown. On 14 July 1764 she married to Christofaro Ravizza. In 1778 she settled in Paris where she was active as a composer and singer performing, among others, arias on music by Antonio Sacchini and Pasquale Anfossi. In the same year she published her first work, the collection 'Six sonates pour le clavecin ou le forte piano ... oeuvre I (1778). The Parisian Almanach Musical stated that the sonatas show "bold modulations that the Italians love and our timorous composers do not dare to allow themselves." Despite she was not permanently living and working in Paris, she regularly visited the city until 1785. In 1780 she was in Turin where she performed an harpsichord concert at the Teatro Carignano. Few months later, she divorced to Christofaro Ravizza and she settled in Neuchâtel where she took over a teacher post. From 1781 to 1782, she was appointed harpsichordist in the Neuchâtel orchestra. By 1792 she settled, for a short period of time, in Madrid returning to Switzerland the next year and definitely stablishing in Lausanne where she remained the rest of her life accompanied by her son François Ravissa (1770-?).