Sounds and sweet airs : the forgotten women of classical music / Anna Beer.

Title:

ISBN:

9781780748566

Personal Author:

Beer, Anna R., 1964-

Publication Information:

London, England : Oneworld Publications, 2016.

Physical Description:

xi, 368 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Contents:

Notes from the silence -- Caccini -- Strozzi -- Jacquet de la Guerre -- Martines -- Hensel -- Schumann -- Boulanger -- Maconchy -- Endnote.

Summary:

Sounds and Sweet Airs reveals the hidden stories of eight remarkable female composers, taking the reader on a journey from seventeenth-century Medici Florence to London in the Blitz.

Personal Subject:

Caccini, Francesca, 1587-approximately 1640.

Strozzi, Barbara, 1619-1677.

Jacquet de La Guerre, Elisabeth-Claude, 1665-1729.

Martinez, Marianne, 1744-1812.

Hensel, Fanny Mendelssohn, 1805-1847.

Schumann, Clara, 1819-1896.

Boulanger, Lili, 1893-1918.

Maconchy, Elizabeth, 1907-1994.

Subject Term:

Women composers--Europe -- Biography

Genre:

Biographies

OCLC Number:

ocn919107359

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