Gracia Baptista
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Gracia Baptista | |
|---|---|
| Personal life | |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Notable work(s) | Conditor alme (1557) |
| Occupation | Nun, composer |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Catholic |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
Gracia Baptista (fl. 1557?) was a Spanish Roman Catholic nun and composer who lived in Ávila.[1] Her setting of Conditor alme, published in 1557 in the Libro de cifra nueva para tecla, Arpa y Vihuela of Luis Venegas de Henestrosa,[2] is the earliest keyboard work by an Iberian woman composer,[3] the first published composition by a woman composer,[4] and possibly the only surviving published keyboard work by an Iberian woman dating to before the eighteenth century.[5] The piece is scored for voice and either organ or harpsichord.[1] It has been recorded.[6][7]
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