Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/A/Agujari, Lucrezia

by John Weeks Moore

Agujari, Lucrezia. A celebrated female singer. She married Cella, an esteemed composer, and sang in London for some years, at the Pantheon, where she was at one time engaged at the enormous salary of £100 per night, for singing only two songs. Agujari was truly, a wonderful performer. She had two octave; o fair natural voice, from A on the fifth line in the bass to A on the sixth line in the treble, and beyond that, in alt, she had, in early youth, more than another octave. Sacchini said he had heard her go up to B flat in altissimo. She died at Parma in 1783.