Marianna Bottini an Italian composer and harpist and contemporary of Rossini. She lived and died in Lucca (home of Boccherini, Geminiani and later Puccini), admitted to the Accademia Filarmonica in Bologna in 1820 as an ‘honorary master composer’.
Perhaps extraordinarily she composed only between the ages of 13 and 20, stopping when she got married (a similar tale can be told of Doreen Carwithen), producing a huge number of choral works (Te Deum, Requiem, Mass settings and motets), a clarinet concerto, quartet for harp, piano, clarinet and horn (!), a work for windband, a piano concerto, and today’s choice, a Symphonie/Sinfonia dated 1818.
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