08/03/2026
“..We have been very honored by your visit and grateful for the music sent; my daughter Leonora will sing [the songs].”[1] Huygens had recently brought the Duartes some of his compositions, a collection of pieces for solo voice and basso continuo in Latin, Italian, and French from his Pathodia sacra et profana (Paris, 1647). It must have pleased Huygens to know that the celebrated musician Leonora Duarte (1610 ีอะไรใหม่ –78), Gaspar’s oldest child, would perform his music, likely accompanied by members of her musically talented family.
'Music, Business, and Belonging in the Antwerp Salon of Leonora Duarte (1610–1678) from The Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music