New Index — A Modern Reveal: Songs and Stories of Women Composers

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Introduction Who we are Acknowledgements

Italian Songs & Arias Early Latin Music Jewish / Eastern European Composers French Composers Musical Theater Composers

24 Italian Songs and Arias by Women Composers 24 French Songs and Arias by Women Composers

Concerts Recordings Lectures Programs Links Bibliography

About Introduction Who we are Acknowledgements Composers Italian Songs & Arias Early Latin Music Jewish / Eastern European Composers French Composers Musical Theater Composers Our Books! 24 Italian Songs and Arias by Women Composers 24 French Songs and Arias by Women Composers Resources Concerts Recordings Lectures Programs Links Bibliography Press Photos Contact

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🎈 Happy Birthday to American composer, May Aufderheide, born #onthisday in 1888 in Indianapolis! She was one of the most well known female composers of ragtime music.

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🎈Happy Birthday to Scottish pianist and composer, Helen Hopekirk, born #onthisday in 1856! Hopekirk wrote art songs and works for piano, violin and orchestra, often using Scottish folk melodies in her compositions.

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🎈 Happy Birthday to Belgian-British composer, Régine Wieniawski, aka Poldowski, born #onthisday in 1879 in Brussels! Poldowski was well known for her song compositions, setting 22 texts of Paul Verlaine, among others. She also wrote works for

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🎈 Happy Birthday to American composer, singer, teacher and philanthropist, Eleanor Everest Freer, born #onthisday in 1864 in Philadelphia! She composed 137 songs, 13 pieces for vocal ensemble, 11 chamber operas and 19 piano works.

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🎈 Happy Birthday to German composer, Emilie Mayer, born #onthisday in 1812 in Friedland!

Mayer composed works for orchestra, piano, chamber music, operas and lieder.

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🎈 Happy Birthday to British composer, Judith Weir, born #onthisday in 1954!

Weir is the first female Master of the Queen’s Music, a position she assumed in 2014. She is best known for her operas and theatrical works and has also written orche

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🎈 Happy Birthday to Austrian composer, singer, and pianist, Marianna Martines, born #onthisday in 1744!

Martines’ musical and general education was encouraged and arranged by Metastasio, a friend of her family. She composed 2 oratorios, 4 mas

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🎈 Happy Birthday to American composer, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, born #onthisday in 1939!

Zwilich was the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for her work, Three Movements for Orchestra (Symphony No 1, 1982). She has composed dozens of works for

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🎈 Happy Birthday to American composer, Natalie Curtis Burlin, born #onthisday in 1875 in NYC! Curtis was an American ethnomusicologist and was known for the use of Native American music in her compositions.

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🎈Happy Birthday to American composer, Augusta Read Thomas, born #onthisday in 1964 in Glen Cove, NY! Her compositions include works for orchestra, chorus, chamber ensemble, voice and solo instruments.

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