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Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini, Italian harpsichord player and composer (died 1795)

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Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini

Italian composer

Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini was an Italian composer. Though she was most famous for her compositions, she was also an accomplished harpsichordist and singer, and the majority of her surviving compositions were written for keyboard, the voice, or both.
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Harpsichord

Plucked-string keyboard instrument

A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. Depressing a key raises its back end within the instrument, which in turn raises a mechanism with a small plectrum made from quill or plastic that plucks one or more strings. The strings are under tension on a…
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October 17

Day of the year

October 17 is the 290th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 75 days remain until the end of the year.
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