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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Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953) USA

Composer and ethnomusicologist. She studied at the Chicago Conservatory with Adolf Weidig, who encouraged her to publish her first Piano...

Composer and pianist. In 1915, she made her solo debut with the Utrecht Municipal Orchestra. She became a celebrated pianist in the...

Composer, but she also played the violin, cello, harp, piano, and organ. At age 6, she began studying harmony, and her sister Nadia...

Composer, pianist, organist, and teacher. Price is known as the first African-American woman to be recognized as a composer and the first...

Composer, pianist, organist, conductor, and teacher who trained and taught many of the great composers of the 20th century. She won the...

Composer, pianist, teacher, and writer. She began playing the piano at age 4 and, at 16, began studying composition with Vincent d'Indy,...

Composer and pianist. She began giving concerts at 18 when she was accepted into Baltimore's Peabody Institute. In 1933, she went to...

Composer and pedagogue. She was one of the leading European orchestral and chamber music composers of her time. Despite her contemporary...

Composer and conductor. In 1901, she was the first woman admitted to the Mesiterschule für Komposition to study composition. A couple of...

Hélène was the first woman admitted to the Prix de Rome in 1903, and is one of the few female composers to have won the award. Here is...

Composer, pianist, and music critic. She studied piano with Agathe Backer-Grondahl (a composer who also appears on this blog). She...

She was the first successful American female composer on a grand scale. Her Gaelic Symphony, premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra...

Composer and pianist. She studied at the Paris Conservatory, gave several concerts in European countries, and finally settled in France...

She studied at the Paris Conservatoire and later became a professor there. I'm sharing the first movement of her Wind Quintet, as well as...

English composer and member of the women's suffrage movement. Her compositions include songs, piano works, chamber music, orchestral and...

Composer and pianist. She made her solo debut in 1874 with the Edinburgh Amateur Orchestral Society. She began studying composition with...

Composer and pianist. She studied at the Cincinnati Conservatory and later in New York. She continued her studies in Europe with Franz...

Composer, pianist, soprano, and conductor. Over the course of her 54-year concert career, she became an internationally renowned virtuoso...

She studied piano and singing at the Stockholm Conservatory and continued her composition studies in Paris with Benjamin Godard and...

In addition to writing the music, she also wrote the texts for all of her vocal works, including songs, oratorios, the libretto for her...

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