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List Of Women Composers By Name
This article provides a list of women composers, sorted alphabetically by surname. For a list of women composers sorted by year of birth, see List of women composers by birth date. __NOTOC__ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See also * List of Australian women composers {{DEFAULTSORT:List of women Composers by name women Composers A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Classical music, Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. E ... Women in music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Women Composers By Birth Date
Women composers of Western classical music are disproportionately absent from music textbooks and concert programs that constitute the Western canon, even though many women have composed music. The reasons for women's absence are various. The musicologist Marcia Citron writing in 1990 noted that many works of musical history and anthologies of music had very few, or sometimes no, references to and examples of music written by women. Among the reasons for historical under-representation of women composers Citron has adduced problems of access to musical education and to the male hierarchy of the musical establishment (performers, conductors, impresarios etc.); condescending attitudes of male reviewers, and their association of women composers with "salon music" rather than music of the concert platform; and denial of female creativity in the arts by philosophers such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Immanuel Kant. All this needs to be considered in the perspective of restrictions agai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amanda Christina Elizabeth Aldridge
Amanda Christina Elizabeth Aldridge, also known as Amanda Ira Aldridge (10 March 1866 – 9 March 1956), was a British opera singer and teacher who composed love songs, suites, sambas, and light orchestral pieces under the pseudonym of Montague Ring. Life Amanda Aldridge was born on 10 March 1866 in Upper Norwood, London, the third child of African-American actor Ira Frederick Aldridge and his second wife, Amanda Brandt, who was Swedish. She had two sisters, Rachael and Luranah, and two brothers, Ira Daniel and Ira Frederick. Aldridge studied voice under Jenny Lind and George Henschel at the Royal College of Music in London, and harmony and counterpoint with Frederick Bridge and Francis Edward Gladstone. After completing her studies, Aldridge worked as a concert singer, piano accompanist, and voice teacher. A throat condition ended her concert appearances, and she turned to teaching and published about thirty songs between the years 1907 and 1925 in a romantic parlour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria De Alvear
Maria de Alvear (born 1960 in Madrid, Spain) is a Spanish-German composer living in Germany who was born to a Spanish father and German mother. She studied with Mauricio Kagel at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln The Cologne University of Music ( is a music college in Cologne, Germany. Founded in 1850, it is Europe's largest academy of music. History The academy was founded by Ferdinand Hiller in 1850 as ''Conservatorium der Musik in Coeln''. In 1895 Ger ..., completing a course in new music theatre in 1986. References New York Times review by Bernard Holland of Maria de Alvear's ''World'' (May 17, 1997), accessed 8 February 2010 External links Maria de Alvear's CDs 1960 births 20th-century classical composers 21st-century classical composers German classical composers German women composers Living people Spanish women classical composers Spanish people of German descent Women classical composers 20th-century German composers 20th-century Spanish musi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lettie Alston
Lettie Beckon Alston (born 1953) is an American composer known for her piano work and a longstanding series of concerts, "Lettie Alston and Friends." Biography Alston was born in 1953 in Detroit. Alston attended Wayne State University for her undergraduate and masters degrees. In 1983, she earned her doctorate in musical composition from the University of Michigan (UM) where she had studied with Leslie Bassett, William Bolcom and Eugene Kurtz. She was the first African-American to earn this degree from UM. Work Alston's work includes traditional, as well as electronic instruments. She has composed for orchestra, chamber and vocal groups. In 1995, Alston started a series of concerts at Oakland University called, "Lettie Alston and Friends." The concerts featured contemporary classical music usually based around a central theme. The last of these concerts took place in 2008. In 2001, her work was recorded on a two CD set, ''Keyboard Maniac''. The set highlighted both her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martha Alter
Martha Alter (8 February 1904 – 3 June 1976) was an American pianist, music teacher and composer. Life and career Martha Alter was born in New Bloomfield, Pennsylvania, to parents David Boyd and Daisy Myrl Alter. She graduated from Vassar College in 1925. Alter continued her studies, receiving a master's in musicology from Columbia University and a master's of music composition from Eastman School of Music, studying with Ernest Hutcheson, Rubin Goldmark, Howard Hanson and Bernard Rogers. She taught at Vassar College from 1929-1931 and took a position teaching music at Connecticut College in 1942. She died in Newport, Pennsylvania, and her papers are housed at the Vassar College Libraries. Works Selected compositions include: *''O Bethlehem'' *''Peace'' *''Bill George'', march and song for baritone and orchestra, poem by Malcolm Cowley *''Anthony Cotnstock'' or ''A Puritan's Progress'', ballet Ballet () is a type of performance dance that originated during the Ita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birgitte Alsted
Birgitte Alsted (born 15 June 1942) is a Danish violinist, teacher and composer. Alsted was born in Odense, and was educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Music and in Warsaw. She has done much within the electronic music and often uses creative expressions, which includes other forms. Thus, she has been a part in theater and performance / dance in Denmark. Her work list, besides the music theater includes works for soloists and chamber ensembles, often unconventional compositions and the use of acoustic instruments. Birgitte Alsted also worked some with multimedia performances in which the use of electronic resources, poetry, dance and slides have been compounded in experimental fashion. Literature and poetry, both old and new have been an important source of inspiration for her. Birgitte Alsted was a founder of the " Gruppen for Alternativ Musik", which was important for her career as a composer. The group experimented with alternative forms and collective improvisation an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yardena Alotin
Yardena Alotin (Hebrew: ירדנה אלוטין; October 19, 1930 in Tel Aviv – October 4, 1994 in New York City) was an Israeli composer and pianist. As a pianist and teacher, Alotin also wrote educational music and music for young musicians, such as ''Six Piano Pieces for Children.'' Alotin won the Nissimov Prize for her 1956 work, ''Yefei Nof.'' Biography Yardena Alotin began studying piano at the age of five with Rivka Sharett-Hoz, the sister of Moshe Sharett, and the wife of Dov Hoz. Yardena Alotin studied from 1948 to 1950 at the Music Teachers' College in Tel Aviv and then from 1950 to 1952 at the Israel Music Academy. Among her teachers were Alexander Uriah Boskovich (theory), Mordecai Seter (harmony, counterpoint), Paul Ben-Haim (orchestrator), Ilona Vincze-Kraus (piano) and Ödön Pártos (composition). Her first work''Yefei Nof'' ('Beautiful Landscape'), composed in 1952 for mixed choir, won the Nissimov Prize and was premiered by the Rinat Choir (of which she was a m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Allitsen
Mary Frances Allitsen (30 December 1848 – 1 October 1912) was an England, English composer. One of her most popular songs is a setting of Psalm 27, "The Lord is My Light"."The Lord is My Light" (1897) Boosey & Company, London Her real name was Mary Bumpus, according to the ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''. Biography Frances Allitsen was born in London, and as a child was far more inclined to literature than to music. But although she had written a novel and some short stories, she finally abandoned literature and devoted herself to music."Popular Lady Composers" (Jul–Dec 1895) ''Strand Musical Magazine'' p.251, London The family moved to a small village where Frances felt isolated and lonely. She said of that time, "It was impossible to go out walki ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristi Allik
Kristi Allik (born 6 February 1952) is a Canadian music educator and composer. Biography Born Kristi Anne Allik on 6 February 1952 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and received a Bachelor of Music from the University of Toronto, a Master of Fine Arts degree from Princeton University and doctorate from the University of Southern California. She studied composition under John Weinzweig, Oskar Morawetz, Lothar Klein, Gustav Ciamaga, James Hopkins, Frederick Leseman and Milton Babbitt. After completing her studies, Allik taught at the University of Victoria (1980–81) and the University of Western Ontario (1982–87) before she settled in Kingston, Ontario, and took a position as Associate Professor of Music at Queen's University where she taught electronic music, composition and jazz until her retirement in July 2013. She was also the Director of the Electronic Music Studios and the Computer Laboratory of Music Applications at Queen's University. Allik's compositions have been p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esther Allan
Esther Allan (née Boyarsky; Suwałki, Poland on April 28, 1914 – Detroit, Michigan on July 21, 1985) was an American composer, pianist and organist.Profile composers-classical-music.com; accessed April 25, 2015. Early years Esther Allan was born Esther Boyarsky in Suwałki, Poland. Her father was a cantor. She began playing the piano when she was only five, and took her first piano lessons with her mother. Her family moved to England when she was very young, and then to America.Career She began working in , both as a "classical" pianist (for e ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotte Alington Barnard
Charlotte Alington Pye Barnard (23 December 1830 in Louth, Lincolnshire – 30 January 1869 in Dover) was an English poet and composer of ballads and hymns, who often wrote under the pseudonym Claribel. She wrote over 100 songs as well as two volumes of verse, and became the most commercially successful balled composer managed by her publishers Boosey's, with whom she established one of the first royalty arrangements. Life Charlotte Alington Pye was the daughter of Henry Alington Pye, a solicitor, and Charlotte Yerburgh. In 1854, she married Charles Cary Barnard. Though he was parson of St Olaves in Ruckland, Lincolnshire, the couple lived at The Firs in Westgate, Louth, Lincolnshire. After Charlotte's presentation at court in 1856, the couple moved to Pimlico. Among their neighbors was the conductor Michael Costa. In London she studied music with the pianist W.H. Holmes and the singer Charlotte Sainton-Dolby. On 8 July 1847, Charlotte laid the foundation stone of Louth railway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franghiz Ali-Zadeh
Franghiz Ali-Zadeh ( Azerbaijani Firəngiz Əlizadə, Russian Франгиз Али-Заде; born 29 May 1947 in Baku, Azerbaijani SSR, Soviet Union) is an Azerbaijani composer and pianist, currently living in Germany. She is best known for her works that combine the musical tradition of the Azerbaijani ''mugam'' and 20th century Western compositional techniques, especially those of Arnold Schoenberg and Gara Garayev. Her works have been performed by Yo-Yo Ma, Hilary Hahn, and the Kronos Quartet. On June 20, 2007, Ali-Zadeh was elected chair of the Composers' Union of Azerbaijan. She was also author of Karabakhname opera. Social activities She is the artistic director of the International World of Mugham Festival. Discography * "Mugam Sayagi", on Kronos Quartet: ''Night Prayers'', Nonesuch (1994) * La Strimpellata Bern: ''Crossings: Music by Frangiz Ali-Zade'', BIS (1997) * "Habil-Sajahy for cello & prepared piano", on Yo-Yo Ma & The Silk Road Ensemble: ''Silk Road Journey - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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