Michielina della Pietà (fl. ca. 1700-1744) was an Italian

Italy

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 composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

, violin

Violin

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ist, organist

Organist

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, and teacher of music.

A foundling

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 admitted in infancy to the Ospedale della Pietà

Ospedale della Pietà

The Ospedale della Pietà was a convent, orphanage, and music school in Venice.Like other Venetian ospedali, the Pietà was established as a hostel for Crusaders...

 in Venice

Venice

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, della Pietà received a thorough musical education from early childhood in the convent's coro, or music school; she became its principal organist and was active as a violinist in the orchestra. As a composer she was active during the tenures of Francesco Gasparini

Francesco Gasparini

Francesco Gasparini was an Italian Baroque composer and teacher whose works were performed throughout Italy, and also on occasion in Germany and England....

, Giovanni Porta

Giovanni Porta

Giovanni Porta was an Italian opera composer.One of the masters of early 18th-century opera and one of the leading Venetian musicians, Porta made his way from Rome, to Vicenza, to Verona, then London where his opera Numitore was performed in 1720 by the Royal Academy of Music , and eventually back...

, Nicola Porpora

Nicola Porpora

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, and Andrea Bernasconi

Andrea Bernasconi

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 as heads of the school; she was further licensed to teach in 1726. She is known to have composed a litany

Litany

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 for the Feast of the Nativity in 1740, and to have written a setting of the hymn

Hymn

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 Pange lingua

Pange Lingua

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in 1741. Nothing further is known of her activities or her life.

Along with Agata

Agata della Pietà

Agata della Pietà was an Italian composer, singer, and teacher of music.A foundling admitted in infancy to the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice, she received thorough musical training from her childhood in the coro, or music school, of the convent; she later became a soprano soloist, singing...

 and Santa della Pietà

Santa della Pietà

Santa della Pietà was an Italian singer, composer, and violinist....

, della Pietà was one of three foundlings of the Ospedale to become a composer later in life.