A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Agigan Lucrezia
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AGIGAN LUCREZIA,
Was the wife of Colla, an Italian composer of secondary rank, who was in London in 1777. His compositions were almost exclusively sung by his wife, of whom Burney, in his History of Music, speaks as "a wonderful performer," saying that she had two octaves of fair natural voice, and stating, on the authority of Sacchini, that in early youth she could go up to B flat, in altissimo. Her shake was perfect, her intonation true, and her execution marked and rapid. From London she went to Parma, and died there in 1783.