Eva Dell'Acqua

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

Biography

Eva Dell'Acqua was born in 1856 in Schaerbeek, 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.^[1]

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).^[2] Dell'Acqua died on 12 February 1930 in Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium.^[3]

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

1. "Femmes Compositrices: Eva Dell'Acqua". Retrieved 13 September 2010.
2. Eva Dell'Acqua at IMDb
3. Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994). The Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers. ISBN 9780393034875. Retrieved 4 October 2010.

External links

• Dell'Acqua's "Villanelle" on YouTube, Sumi Jo, Paris, 2006