Emilia Guiliani Guglielmi – Variazioni su un tema di mercadante op.9
Emilia Guiliani was born in Vienna April 23, 1813, at a time when her father virtuoso guitarist and composer Mauro Giuliani is in great success. Her mother died in Vienna in 1817 and her father Mauro died in 8 May 1829 when she was only sixteen.
Guglielmi Emilia Giuliani led a concert career in a little over twenty years, from 1828 when she was only 14 or 15 years, to 1849, less than a year before her death. The piece “Variazioni per chitarra sopra un tema del Mercadante” was published in Milano by press Gio. Ricordi, in July 1837.