List of female composers - Definition and Overview
The following is a list of famous female
composers
:
Keiko Abe
(born 1937)
Maria Teresa Agnesi (1720 - 1795)
Frances Allitsen (1849 - 1912)
Maryanne Amacher
(born 1943)
Anna Amalia Princess of Prussia
(1723 - 1787)
Anna Amalia, Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
(1739 - 1807)
Beth Anderson
(born 1950)
Ruth Anderson (born 1928)
Agathe Backer Grøndahl
(1847 - 1907)
Anne Boleyn
(1507 - 1536)
Lili Boulanger
(1893 - 1918)
Caterina Assandra (1580 - 1632)
Tekla Badarzewska
(1834 - 1861)
Cecilia Maria Barthelemon (c.1769 - 1840)
Marion Bauer
(1882 - 1955)
Amy Beach
(1867 - 1944)
Eve Beglarian
(born 1958)
Gertrude van den Bergh (1793 - 1843)
Marie Bigot (1786 - 1820)
Elizabeth Weichsell Billington (c.1768 - 1818)
Carla Bley
(born 1938)
Lili Boulanger
(1893 - 1918)
Nadia Boulanger
(1887 - 1979)
Francesca Caccini
(1587 - 1640?)
Settimia Caccini (1591 - 1638?)
Wendy Carlos
(born 1939)
Maddalena Cassulana (c.1540 - c.1590)
Cécile Chaminade
(1857 - 1944)
Unsuk Chin
(born 1961)
Rebecca Clarke
(1886 - 1979)
Ruth Crawford-Seeger
(1901 - 1953)
Madeleine Dring
(1923 - 1977)
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
(1797 - 1848)
Sophia Corri Dussek (1775 - 1847)
Ellen Fullman
(born 1957)
Ruth Gipps
(1921 - 1999)
Annie Gosfield
(born 1960)
Agathe Backer Grøndahl
(1847 - 1907)
Sofia Gubaidulina
(born 1931)
Guy d'Hardelot
(1858 - 1936)
Hildegard of Bingen
(1098 - 1179)
Augusta Holmès
(1847 - 1903)
Eleanor Hovda
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)
Elodie Lauten
(born 1950)
Annea Lockwood
(born 1939)
Elisabeth Lutyens
(1906 - 1983)
Elizabeth Maconchy
(1907 - 1994)
Maria Malibran
(1808 - 1836)
Bunita Marcus
(born 1952)
Fanny Mendelssohn
(1805 - 1847)
Meredith Monk
(born 1942)
Helene de Montgeroult (1764 - 1836)
Angela Morley
(born 1924)
Thea Musgrave (born 1928)
Caroline Sheridan Norton (1808 - 1877)
Pauline Oliveros
(born 1932)
Maria Hester Park (1775 - 1822)
Shulamit Ran
(born 1949)
Louise Reichardt (1779 - 1826)
Ann Ronell
(1906 or 1908 - 1933)
Clara Schumann
(1819 - 1896)
Ethel Smyth
(1858 - 1944)
Laurie Spiegel
(born 1945)
Elizabeth Stirling (1819 - 1895)
Barbara Strozzi
(1619 - 1677)
Maria Agata Szymanowska (1789 - 1831)
Germaine Tailleferre
(1892 - 1983)
Louise Talma
(1906 - 1996)
Joan Tower
(born 1938)
Usha Khanna
Kaija Saariaho
(born 1952)
Lois V. Vierk
(born 1951)
Judith Weir (born 1954)
Grace Williams (1906 - 1977)
Julia Wolfe
(born 1958)
Ellen Wright (born 1904)
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
(born 1939)
See also:
Category:Women classical composers
Category:Women jazz composers
List of composers
List of 20th century classical composers
List of famous gay, lesbian or bisexual composers
Further reading
And Don't Call Them 'Lady' Composers
(
http://music.dartmouth.edu/~wowem/noboys/lady.html
)
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
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