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Debut novelist Harriet Constable tells story of forgotten violin prodigy Anna Maria della Pieta
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The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable chronicles the childhood and teenage years of forgotten violin virtuoso Anna Maria della Pieta.
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SINGAPORE – Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi wrote The Four Seasons (1725) for his most talented student Anna Maria della Pieta and now, new British author Harriet Constable tells the story of this mostly forgotten violin prodigy.
Constable, 35, says on a Zoom call from her London home, where art hangs on the wall and an orange cat ambles around: “In 2019, I read a passing line in a non-fiction book that Vivaldi worked in an orphanage for his whole career and that there was an all-female orchestra.
