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The weekly composer: Maria Teresa Agnesi
(1720-1795) Most of her surviving compositions are for keyboard instruments and the voice. There are records, however, that suggest she wrote six operas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWbvFDhZ2xI&t=87s&ab_channel=PauNG #weeklywomancomposer #maria #agnesi

January 9, 1799: Italian mathematician and philosopher Maria Gaetana #Agnesi died in Milan. Recognized early on as a child prodigy, she was fluent in seven languages by age eleven and was studying #ballistics and geometry at age fifteen. She was the first woman to write a #mathematics handbook, discussing both differential and integral calculus, and she was the first woman appointed as a mathematics professor at a university (University of Bologna).

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