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Word: costanzi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...history's few able female composers; in total obscurity, of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan. A mother of two & widowed at 27, she turned to composing, wrote more than 125 compositions for piano & orchestra, played before Italy's Queen Margherita at Rome's Costanzi, won a gold medal at the International Exposition in Florence, ended her career giving piano lessons in Manhattan's Greenwich Village...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 7, 1932 | 11/7/1932 | See Source »

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