THERE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN WOMEN COMPOSERS

(but maybe no one has told you about them)

Project to highlight music composed by women throughout history

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Lūcija Garūta (1902 - 1977) Latvia

Pianist, composer and poet born in Riga, she studied piano and composition at the Latvian Conservatory and then in Paris with teachers...

Czech composer. She also used the pseudonym Mira Kord. She was born in Náchod and studied singing with Rosa Papier at the Vienna Academy...

Composer born in Funen, Denmark. She studied music in Copenhagen and later in Paris. She also studied organ and composition and began...

Austrian composer born in Linz, daughter of glassmaker Wilhelm Kralik and Louise Lobmeyr. Coming from a cultured and musical family, she...

Considered the most original and influential composer of her country in the 20th century. Born in Kragujevac, Serbia, to a family with...

American composer, conductor, and teacher, known primarily for her choral music. Born in Massachusetts to a deeply musical family, she...

Louise-Justine Delbos, better known by her pseudonym Claire Delbos, was a French violinist and composer born in Paris in 1906. She...

Austrian composer. Born in Vienna, she grew up in Linz, where she studied piano with Anna Zappa and later at the Linz Music Academy with...

South African-British composer whose work is characterized by a deeply personal style, influenced by the African music she heard during...

British composer, conductor, violinist, violist, and pedagogue whose career, though under-recognized at the time, is currently being...

Irish composer whose works span genres such as orchestral, choral, chamber music, opera, ballet, and song. Although several of her...

English composer and pianist, known in her time as the "English Richard Strauss." Born in Birmingham to a musical family, she displayed...

Composer and pianist, born in Brno in the Moravia region of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, she was the daughter of an English teacher and a...

Pianist and composer. Her musical career began when she took piano lessons with her grandmother. At 12, she began classes with Hilda...

Composer and pianist. She studied music with Clara Wieck (who is also featured on this blog), Peter Cornelius, and Franz Liszt, and was a...

Johanna and her four sisters were raised in girls' boarding schools and received piano and singing lessons, in keeping with the...

Harpsichordist and composer. She rose to fame at a young age, composing six sonatas and the oratorio Daniello at the age of 13, which was...

Composer and pianist. She studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. She wrote a symphony, a piano concerto, choral works, chamber...

Composer, writer, and music educator, she won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1932, taught at the Paris Conservatory, and wrote around 500...

Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia was a composer, a great music advocate, and a lute player. She wrote an opera and chamber music that...

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