Sounds and sweet airs: the forgotten women of classical music

Since the birth of classical music, women who dared compose have faced a bitter struggle to be heard. In spite of this, female composers continued to create, inspire and challenge. Yet even today so much of their work languishes unheard. Anna Beer reveals the highs and lows experienced by eight comp...

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1. Verfasser: Beer, Anna R. 1964- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London Oneworld Publications 2017
Ausgabe:Paperback edition
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Zusammenfassung:Since the birth of classical music, women who dared compose have faced a bitter struggle to be heard. In spite of this, female composers continued to create, inspire and challenge. Yet even today so much of their work languishes unheard. Anna Beer reveals the highs and lows experienced by eight composers across the centuries, from Renaissance Florence to twentieth-century London, restoring to their rightful place exceptional women whom history has forgotten [Publisher description]
Notes from the silence -- [Francesca] Caccini -- [Barbara] Strozzi -- [Élisabeth] Jacquet de la Guerre -- [Marianna] Martines -- [Fanny Mendelssohn] Hensel -- [Clara] Schumann -- [Lili] Boulanger -- [Elizabeth] Maconchy -- Endnote
Beschreibung:Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
Beschreibung:xi, 369 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9781786070678

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