Susanna Nerantzi was a Greek

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

 pianist and composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

. It is thought that Susanna Nerantzi was born in Zakynthos

Zakynthos

Zakynthos , also Zante, the other form often used in English and in Italian , is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea. It is the third largest of the Ionian Islands. It is also a separate regional unit of the Ionian Islands region, and the only municipality of the regional unit. It covers an area of ...

, Greece

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

. She is the earliest recorded modern Greek woman composer. She studied piano and composition in Corfu

Corfu

Corfu is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea. It is the second largest of the Ionian Islands, and, including its small satellite islands, forms the edge of the northwestern frontier of Greece. The island is part of the Corfu regional unit, and is administered as a single municipality. The...

 under Nikolaos Mantzaros

Nikolaos Mantzaros

Nikolaos Halikiopoulos Mantzaros was a Greek composer born in Corfu and the major representative of the so called Ionian School of music...

 and composed works which were published by Francesco Lucca of Milan

Milan

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 in 1839.
Some of her works are exhibited in the Music Museum of Philharmonic Society of Corfu

Philharmonic Society of Corfu

The Philharmonic Society of Corfu is today widely known as a community band in Corfu, Greece. However, when it was founded in 1840, its initial scope was to become the first Greek music academy organised on European prototypes...

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Works

Selected works include:

• Les souvenirs (op.26)
• Fantasia sulla romanza ‘Il lago di Como’ (op.27)
• Regret pour la patrie (op.28)