Although well known in Vienna, the composer and performer Marianna Martines (1744–1812) was one of the city’s best-known secrets. A keyboardist who studied with Haydn from age 7, at the behest of Metastasio, Martines was an accomplished keyboardist. At age

Marianna Martines was an extraordinary figure in the history of eighteenth-century Vienna. She grew up with a great librettist as a father figure, studied with her neighbour Joseph Haydn, and played four-hand piano duets with Mozart. And yet, despite her