Camilla de Rossi, a Viennese Baroque Enigma

No portrait, no biography, only a handful of documents that can be counted on the fingers of one hand: almost everything about Camilla de Rossi has vanished. All she left behind were four oratorios composed for the Viennese court between 1707 and 1710. Yet they are enough to reveal a distinctive, inventive, and fully accomplished musical language, sketching the profile of a composer of remarkable musical audacity.