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Eva Dell'Acqua

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12 February 1930, Ixelles, Belgium

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Eva Dell'Acqua (28 January 1856 – 12 February 1930) was a Belgian singer and composer of Italian ancestry.

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Biography

Eva Dell'Acqua was born in 1856 in Schaarbeek, Brussels, Belgium, the daughter of the Italian painter Cesare Dell'Acqua and his wife Carolina van der Elst. She composed in the Romantic style and produced orchestral works, pieces for chamber orchestra, and other works for piano and solo voice, opera and stage.

Dell'Acqua's song "Villanelle" for coloratura soprano has been widely performed and recorded, and has appeared on film soundtracks including Get Hep to Love (1942) and I Married an Angel (1942). Dell'Acqua died 12 February 1930 in Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium.

Works

Selected works include:

  • "Villanelle" (1893)
  • "La bachelette" (1896)
  • "Le tambour battant" (1900)
  • "Je donnerais" (1908)
  • "Swallow's Waltz" (1909)
  • "Chanson Provençale" (1912)
  • "Le clavecin" (1917)
  • "Pierrot the Liar" (1918)

    • References

    Eva Dell'Acqua Wikipedia
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