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| 18th May 2017, 1:15 AM | #1 REPORT | |
 | Gill Sans SUBS ● Member since Apr 2014 1108 Points Moderator | I am always pleased to read any notes pertaining to women composers, except notes that mention only the sex of the composer, in the manner of a circus curiosity Maybe a list of female classical composers is not out of place in the Classical World forum, so I will start off a small list by nominating the following: Hildegard of Bingen Francesca Caccini Joanna Treasure Jocelyn Pook Sasha Johnson Manning Roxanna Panufnik - and new in this century, take a look at the composers on NMC D150. Maybe someday I will complete the track listing for this compilation! Similarly to NMC, Unknown Public has been a gender-neutral platform for new artists including many composers. One day I will add a few more of their boxes. Edited by Gill Sans on 19th Dec 2020, 11:29 PM |
| 18th May 2017, 8:07 AM | #2 REPORT | |
 | Magic Marmalade If you're not lost... It's not an adventure! Member since Jun 2014 3735 Points Moderator | Perhaps my sense of irony didn't come across too well in my comment here ... But I was surprised to come across a female composer in what has always seemed to me an entirely male dominated world - and particularly at the time she was composing. (Even literature has Brontes and the occasional George Elliott). I might have gone my whole life and not known that there were any, as I'm sure may have been the case for many. Still... at least it prompted you to start this thread Gill, and that can only be a good thing.  |
| 21st May 2017, 5:58 PM | #3 REPORT | |
| Gill Sans SUBS ● Member since Apr 2014 1108 Points Moderator | MM - It's hard to detect any irony online unless there's a smiley  It would be more challenging to name the women conductors in Classical World. This was one of the questions about conductors that Tom Service addressed in the programme What's the Point of the Conductor? on BBC Radio 3 this afternoon |
| 21st May 2017, 8:23 PM | #4 REPORT | |
| Magic Marmalade If you're not lost... It's not an adventure! Member since Jun 2014 3735 Points Moderator | I can't say I know any female conductors...  ...except a couple of years back a female conductor at the Last Night of The Proms.  But don't ask me her name  ...But that's not because she's a female conductor, just that I never remember the conductors (And I'm an idiot)  (Although I am finding one or two names have burned themselves into my brain from Classical world... so maybe I'm actually learning something ) |
| 21st May 2017, 9:21 PM | #5 REPORT | |
 | Charlie Chalk Self praise is no recommendation. Member since Oct 2011 45068 Points Moderator |
Magic Marmalade wrote:
I can't say I know any female conductors...
...except a couple of years back a female conductor at the Last Night of The Proms. But don't ask me her name |
| 21st May 2017, 11:54 PM | #6 REPORT | |
| Gill Sans SUBS ● Member since Apr 2014 1108 Points Moderator | Radio 3 now... |
| 22nd May 2017, 6:54 AM | #7 REPORT | |
 | PhilMH Member since Jan 2012 1054 Points | A couple of female conductors (one also a composer): Antonia Brico - Judy Collins' piano teacher; Imogen Holst - Gustav's daughter, also an arranger and part-time composer. |
| 22nd May 2017, 7:57 AM | #8 REPORT | |
 | LaurenceD SUBS Member since Aug 2011 7672 Points Moderator | Let's not forget the prolific composer Fanny Mendelssohn. And long-time San Diego Opera conductor Karen Keltner. Edited by LaurenceD on 22nd May 2017, 8:25 AM |
| 25th May 2017, 8:06 AM | #9 REPORT | |
 | ppint. Member since Aug 2012 6389 Points | (anna) isabella leonarda 1620-1704; an ursuline nun who composed two hundred motets and at least a dozen sonatas and concerted sonatas; she composed only in her "free" time, outside of her duties within the convent, attendance at the regular religious services, and her prayers. |
| 10th Feb 2018, 1:06 PM | #10 REPORT | |
| Gill Sans SUBS ● Member since Apr 2014 1108 Points Moderator | Some more this morning Caroline Gill on women composers including Hélène de Montgeroult, Jennifer Higdon, Suor Leonora d’Este and Alma Mahler I have added the CD "Lucrezia Borgia's Daughter" Edited by Gill Sans on 16th Apr 2020, 11:44 PM |
| 10th Feb 2018, 1:30 PM | #11 REPORT | |
| Magic Marmalade If you're not lost... It's not an adventure! Member since Jun 2014 3735 Points Moderator | All of the composers / conductors mentioned on this page have now been added to the database, ready for any entries that may come. |
| 10th Feb 2018, 2:22 PM | #12 REPORT | |
| Gill Sans SUBS ● Member since Apr 2014 1108 Points Moderator | Thanks, and we've even got an auto-convert for Hélène de Montgeroult so you only have to enter Montgeroult as the composer. |
| 10th Feb 2018, 4:15 PM | #13 REPORT | |
| keebrev Member since Aug 2016 464 Points | If you search on the internet on"Dutch Female Composers, you get 29 names. Not one of them I ever heard of, but who am I..... |
| 11th Feb 2018, 10:55 AM | #14 REPORT | |
| Magic Marmalade If you're not lost... It's not an adventure! Member since Jun 2014 3735 Points Moderator | Would make an interesting BBC prom wouldn't it.... female composers? (quite timely, too I'd a thunk) |
| 8th Mar 2018, 11:38 PM | #15 REPORT | |
 | LouisSidney Member since May 2012 10620 Points | Some female composers: Germaine Tailleferre Lili Boulanger Clara Schumann Louise Farrenc Cécile Chaminade Barbara Strozzi Kiaja Saariaho Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre Edited by moderator on 18th May 2024, 11:15 PM |
| 9th Mar 2018, 12:10 AM | #16 REPORT | |
 | mister_tmg Also on 78rpm Member since Apr 2012 1118 Points | There was a Radio 3 concert on this subject for International Women's Day earlier tonight. Some of the names here do ring a bell, but they are certainly not 'household names' like Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, etc. There must be historical reasons as to why there were so few. Furthermore, virtually the only female (dance) bandleader in mid-20th century Britain was Ivy Benson, in another male-dominated field. Angela Morley was a female composer and arranger in the post-war period - though at the time, was known as Wally Stott. |
| 7th Apr 2018, 9:51 AM | #17 REPORT | |
| Gill Sans SUBS ● Member since Apr 2014 1108 Points Moderator | A new CD has music by Amy Beach (U.S.A.), Luise Adolpha le Beau (Germany), Pauline Viardot-Garcia (France), Amanda Röntgen-Maier (Sweden), Maria Theresia von Paradis (Austria) and Dora Pejačević (Croatia) Edited by Gill Sans on 15th Dec 2019, 11:26 PM |
| 17th Apr 2018, 4:28 PM | #18 REPORT | |
| Pridesale Member since Mar 2013 798 Points | Note quite classical but Wally Stott became Angela Morley Guardian Obitary Mostly composing for Radio, Film and Television. Generally speaking Music is Male dominated owning to biological showing off to (literally) get the birds. Male Crickets make the noises, most birds , apes likewise, with other showing off (which is Conductors are), is common in aquatic mammals and probably moths and glow-worms. |
| 5th Aug 2018, 3:06 PM | #19 REPORT | |
| Gill Sans SUBS ● Member since Apr 2014 1108 Points Moderator | Not yet on Classical World: Canadian organist and composer Rachel Laurin (organ voluntary, heard on Radio 3) |
| 16th Aug 2018, 3:51 AM | #20 REPORT | |
| Pridesale Member since Mar 2013 798 Points | In church music there have been quite a few female lyric writers, less so I think on orchestration/organ music side of things. The wife got Grade 8 music theory as have a few other women of my acquantance, but they never went to commercial composistion. |
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