- Performer Name:
- Corilla
- Performance Venue:
- Florence
- Performance Date:
- 1770
- Author:
- Burney, Charles
- Date Written:
- Language:
- English
- Publication Title:
- The Present State of Music in France and Italy: or, The Journal of a Tour through those Countries, Undertaken to Collect Materials for a General History of Music
- Article Title:
- Page Numbers:
- 259-260
- Additional Info:
- Publisher:
- Beckett
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Date Published:
- 1773
Text:
[259] Tuesday [September] 11. At another great accademia, at the house of Signor Domenico Baldigiani, I this evening met with the famous Improvvisatrice, Signora Madalena Morelli, commonly called La Corilla, who is likewise a scholar of Signor Nardini, on the violin; and afterwards I was frequently at her house.* Besides [260] her wonderful talent of speaking verses extempore upon any given subject, and being able to play a ripieno part, on the violin, in concert, she sings with a great deal of expression, and has a considerable share of execution.
* She has, almost every evening, a conversazione, or assembly, which is much frequented by the foreigners, and men of letters, at Florence.
Notes:
- Collected by:
- AE