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List of female composers
The following is a list of famous female composers:
- Maria Teresa Agnesi (1720 - 1795)
- Frances Allitsen (1849 - 1912)
- Anna Amalia Princess of Prussia (1723 - 1787)
- Anna Amalia, Duchess of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach (1723 - 1787)
- Beth Anderson
- Ruth Anderson
- Agathe Backer Grøndahl (1847 - 1907)
- Anne Boleyn (1507 - 1536)
- Lili Boulanger (1893 - 1918)
- Caterina Assandra (1580 - 1632)
- Cecilia Maria Barthelemon (c.1769 - 1840)
- Marion Bauer (1882 - 1955)
- Amy Beach (1867 - 1944)
- Gertrude van den Bergh (1793 - 1843)
- Marie Bigot (1786 - 1820)
- Elizabeth Weichsell Billington (c.1768 - 1818)
- Wendy Carlos (born 1939)
- Unsuk Chin (born 1961)
- Rebecca Clarke (1886 - 1979)
- Ruth Crawford-Seeger (1901 - 1953)
- Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797 - 1848)
- Sophia Corri Dussek (1775 - 1847)
- Sofia Gubaidulina (born 1931)
- Augusta Holmès (1847 - 1903)
- Vitezslava Kapralova (1915 - 1940)
- Johanna Mathieux Kinkel (1810 - 1858)
- Antoinette Kirkwood
- Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1805 - 1847)
- Hildegard of Bingen (1098 - 1179)
- Elena Kats-Chernin (born 1957)
- Joan La Barbara (born 1947)
- Josephine Lang (1815 - 1880)
- Annea Lockwood (born 1939)
- Elisabeth Lutyens (1906 - 1983)
- Maria Malibran (1808 - 1836)
- Meredith Monk (born 1942)
- Helene de Montgeroult (1764 - 1836)
- Thea Musgrave (born 1928)
- Caroline Sheridan Norton (1808 - 1877)
- Pauline Oliveros (born 1932)
- Maria Hester Park (1775 - 1822)
- Louise Reichardt (1779 - 1826)
- Clara Schumann (1819 - 1896)
- Ethel Smyth (1858 - 1944)
- Laurie Spiegel (born 1945)
- Elizabeth Stirling (1819 - 1895)
- Maria Agata Szymanowska (1789 - 1831)
- Germaine Tailleferre (1892 - 1983)
- Louise Talma (1906 - 1996)
- Joan Tower (born 1938)
- Usha Khanna
- Kaija Saariaho
- Lois V. Vierk (born 1951)
- Judith Weir (born 1954)
- Grace Williams
- Ellen Wright (born 1904)
See also:
Further reading
- And Don't Call Them 'Lady' Composers by Pauline Oliveros
- Historical Anthology of Music by Women. James R. Briscoe, ed. Indiana University Press, 1986 (ISBN 0253212960)
External links
- http://music.acu.edu/www/iawm/pages/romantix.html
- http://www.kapralova.org/DATABASE.htm
Last updated: 10-24-2004 05:10:45