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Sound Bites: 100 Women Composers Through the Ages

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Women Composers through the Ages: Middle Ages thru Classical Era

Kassia (c. 810–before 865)
Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179)
Sulpitia Cesis (1577-after 1619)
Francesca Caccini (1587–between 1641 and 1645)
Caterina Assandra (c. 1590–after 1618)
Lucrezia Vizzana (1590-1662)
Chiara Margarita Cozzolani (1602-1678)
Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677)
Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre (1665-1729)
Anna Bon (1738–1769)
Maria Theresa Paradis (1759–1824)

Women Composers through the Ages: Romantic Era

Maria Agata Szymanowska (1789-1831)
Louise Farrenc (1804-1875)
Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847)
Josephine Lang (1815-1880)
Clara Schumann (1819-1896)
Tekla Badarzewska-Baranowka (1829/1834–1861)
Alice Mary Smith (1839-1884)
Agathe Backer Grondahl (1847-1907)
Augusta Holmes (1847-1903)
Teresa Carreño (1853-1917)
Maude Valerie White (1855-1937)
Cecile Chaminade (1857-1944)
Ethel Smyth (1858-1944)
Helen Rhodes (1858-1936)
Amy Woodforde-Finden (1860-1919)
Liza Lehmann (1862-1918)
Alice Tegner (1864-1943)
Amy Beach (1867-1944)
Henriette Renie (1875-1956)

Women Composers Through the Ages: Early 20th Century

Regine Wieniawski (1879-1932)
Alma Mahler (1879-1964)
Marion Bauer (1882-1955)
May Brahe (1884-1956)
Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979)
Florence Beatrice Price (1887-1953)
Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983)
Katherine K. Davis (1892-1980)
Lili Boulanger (1893-1918)
Henriette Bosmans (1895-1952)
Sophie Carmen Echkhadt-Gramatte (1899-1974)
Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953)
Claude Arieu (1903-1990)
Elizabeth Poston (1905-1987)
Elisabeth Lutyens (1906-1983)
Louise Talma (1906-1996)
Grace Williams (1906-1977)
Imogen Holst (1907-1984)
Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994)
Minna Keal (1909-1999)
Ljubica Maric (1909-2003)
Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)
Barbara Pentland (1912-2000)
Margaret Allison Bonds (1913-1972)
Violet Archer (1913-2000)
Vítězslava Kaprálová (1915-1940)
Joan Trimble (1915-2000)
Galina Utsvolskaya (1919-2006)
Jeanne Demesieux (1921-1968)

Women Composers Through the Ages: Mid 20th Century

Doreen Carwithen (1922-2003)
Jean Eichelberger (1923-2010)
Tatyana Nikolayeva (1924-1993)
Ruth Schonthal (1924-2006)
Erzsebet Szonyi (1924-2019)
Lucia Dlugoszewski (1925-2000)
Emma Lou Diemer (1927-2024)
Thea Musgrave (1928- )
Sofia Gubaidulina (1931- )
Kazuko Hara (1935-2014)
Keiko Abe (1937- )
Joan Tower (1938- )
Annea Lockwood (1939- )
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (1939- )
Meredith Monk (1942- )
Rhian Samuel (1944- )
Elizabeth Raum (1945- )
Marilyn Shrude (1946- )
Barbara Benary (1946-2019)
Franghiz Ali-Zadeh (1947- )

Women Composers Through the Ages: Late 20th Century thru Today

Nicola LeFanu (1947- )
Bernadette Speach (1948- )
Alexina Louie (1949- )
Libby Larsen (1950- )
Elodie Lauten (1950-2014)
Beth Anderson (1950- )
Chen Yi (1953- )
Lam Bun-Ching (1954- )
Sally Beamish (1956- )
Karin Rehnqvist (1957- )
Ellen Fullman (1957- )
Chaya Czernowin (1957- )
Eve Beglarian (1958- )
Annie Gosfield (1960- )
Unsuk Chin (1961- )
Jennifer Higdon (1962- )
Augusta Read Thomas (1964- )
Roxanna Panufnik (1968- )
Misato Mochizuki (1969- )
Helena Tulve (1972- )
Lera Auerbach (1973- )

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