Eva Dell'Acqua was a Belgian singer and composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

 of Italian ancestry.

Biography

Eva Dell'Acqua was born in 1856 in Brussels, Belgium, and was the daughter of the Italian painter Cesare Dell'Acqua. 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

Coloratura

Coloratura has several meanings. The word is originally from Italian, literally meaning "coloring", and derives from the Latin word colorare . When used in English, the term specifically refers to elaborate melody, particularly in vocal music and especially in operatic singing of the 18th and...

 soprano has been widely performed and recorded, and has appeared on film soundtracks including Get Hep to Love

Get Hep to Love

Get Hep to Love is a 1942 musical film starring Gloria Jean, Donald O'Connor, Jane Frazee, Robert Paige and Peggy Ryan. The film was directed by Charles Lamont.-Plot:...

(1942) and I Married an Angel

I Married an Angel (film)

I Married an Angel is an a 1942 American motion picture based on the 1938 musical comedy of the same name by Rodgers and Hart. The film was directed by W. S. Van Dyke and starred Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, who were then a popular onscreen couple...

(1942). Dell'Acqua died 12 February 1930 in Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium.

Works

Selected works include:

• Villanelle (1893)
• Je donnerais (1908)
• Swallows Waltz (1909)
• Chanson Provençale (1912)
• Le clavecin (1917)
• Pierrot the Liar (1918)

External links

• Sumi Jo sings Eva Dell'Acqua's Villanelle - Paris, 2006