Female composer

Alice Mary Smith

459 Alice Mary Smith

Alice Mary Smith, married name Alice Mary Meadows-White (19 May 1839 — 4 December 1884) was an English composer.

Augusta Mary Anne Holmès (18 December 1847 – 28 January 1903) was a French composer of Irish descent. At first she published under the pseudonym Hermann Zenta. In 1871, Holmès became a French citizen and added the accent to her last name.[1] She herself wrote the lyrics to almost all her songs and oratorios, as well as the libretto of the opera La Montagne Noire.

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel

Fanny Cäcilie Mendelssohn (14 November 1805 – 14 May 1847), later Fanny Hensel, was a German pianist and composer, the sister of the composer Felix Mendelssohn and granddaughter of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. She was the grandmother of the philosopher Paul Hensel and the mathematician Kurt Hensel

Clara Wieck Schumann

(b Leipzig, 13 Sept 1819; d Frankfurt, 20 May 1896). German pianist, composer and teacher. One of the foremost European pianists of the 19th century and the wife and champion of the music of Robert Schumann, she was also a respected composer and influential teacher.

Barbara Strozzi

Barbara Strozzi (also called Barbara Valle; baptised 6 August 1619 – 11 November 1677) was an Italian Baroque singer and composer.

Maria Hester Park

Maria Hester Park (née Reynolds) (September 29, 1760 – June 7, 1813) was a British composer, pianist, and singer. She was also a noted piano teacher who taught many students in the nobility, including the Duchess of Devonshire and her daughters.

Maddalena Lombardini Sirmen

Maddalena Sirmen (9 December 1745 – 18 May 1818) was an Italian composer, violinist, and later unsuccessful singer.

Isabella Leonarda

Isabella Leonarda (6 September 1620 – 25 February 1704) was an Italian composer from Novara. At the age of 16, she entered the Collegio di Sant’Orsola, an Ursuline convent, where she stayed for the remainder of her life. Leonarda is most renowned for the numerous compositions that she created during her time at the convent, making her one of the most productive woman composers of her time.

Cecile Chaminade

055 Cecile Chaminade

b Paris, 8 Aug 1857; d Monte Carlo, 13 April 1944). French composer and pianist.

Hildegard von Bingen

461 Hildegard von Bingen

Hildegard of Bingen 1098 – 17 September 1179), also known as Saint Hildegard, and Sybil of the Rhine, was a writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, German Benedictine abbess, visionary, and polymath. Elected a magistra by her fellow nuns in 1136, she founded the monasteries of Rupertsberg in 1150 and Eibingen in 1165. One of her works as a composer, the Ordo Virtutum, is an early example ofliturgical drama.

Elizabeth de la Guerre

457 Elisabeth Jacque de La Guerre

Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre , 17 March 1665, Paris – 27 June 1729, Paris) was a French musician, harpsichordist and composer.

Louise Farrenc

Louise Farrenc (31 May 1804 – 15 September 1875) was a French composer, virtuosa pianist and teacher. Born Jeanne-Louise Dumont in Paris, she was the daughter of Jacques-Edme Dumont, a successful sculptor, and sister to Auguste Dumont

Teresa Carreno

María Teresa Carreño García de Sena (December 22, 1853 – June 12, 1917) was a Venezuelan pianist, singer, composer, and conductor.

Maria Szymanowska

Maria Szymanowska born Marianna Agata Wołowska; Warsaw, December 14, 1789 – July 25, 1831, St. Petersburg, Russia) was a Polish composer and one of the first professional virtuoso pianists of the 19th century. She toured extensively throughout Europe, especially in the 1820s, before settling permanently in St. Petersburg. In the Russian imperial capital, she composed for the court, gave concerts, taught music, and ran an influential salon.

Germaine Tailleferre

Germaine Tailleferre (19 April 1892 – 7 November 1983) was a French composer and the only female member of the famous composers’ group Les Six.

Nadia Boulanger

(Juliette) Nadia Boulanger ([ʒy.ljɛt na.dja bu.lɑ̃.ʒe]; 16 September 1887 – 22 October 1979) was a French composer, conductor and teacher who taught many composers and performers of the 20th century.

Amy Beach

Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (September 5, 1867 – December 27, 1944) was an American composer and pianist. She was the first successful American female composer of large-scale art music. Most of her compositions and performances were under the name Mrs. H.H.A. Beach

Cecilia Barthelemon

465 Cecelia Barthelemon

Cecilia Maria Barthélemon (c.1769-after 1840) was an English singer, composer, pianist, and organist. She was the daughter of Maria Barthélemon, née Mary (Polly) Young, and François-Hippolyte Barthélémon. She published sonatas and occasional music.

Marianne Martinez

464 Marianne Martinez

Marianna [Marianne] von Martines [Martinez] (May 4, 1744 – December 13, 1812), was a singer, pianist and composer of the classical period.

Maria Teresa von Paradis

458 Maria Theresa von Paradis

Maria Theresia Paradis (also von Paradies) (May 15, 1759 – February 1, 1824), was an Austrian music performer and composer who lost her sight at an early age, and for whom Mozart may have written his Piano Concerto No. 18 in B flat major.

Marianna Auenbrugger

Marianna Auenbrugger (July 19 1759 in Vienna – August 25 1782), was an Austrian pianist and composer.

Marcelle de Manziarly

Marcelle Manziarly

Marcelle de Manziarly (b. 1/13 October 1899, d. 12 May 1989) was a French pianist, music educator, conductor and composer. She was born in Kharkiv, studied in Paris with Nadia Boulanger and at the age of 23 had already composed two mature works. She later studied conducting with Felix Weingartner in Basle and piano with Isabelle Vengerova in New York and taught and performed in Europe and the United States. Aaron Copeland dedicated his song “Heart, We Will Forget Him” to her.[1][2] She died in Ojai, California

Anna Bon

Anna Bon (ca.1739-?) was an Italian composer and performer. Her parents were both involved in music and traveled internationally; her father was the Bolognese artist Girolamo Bon, a librettist and scenographer, and her mother was the singer Rosa Ruvinetti Bon. Anna was born in Russia. On March 8, 1743, at the age of four, she was admitted to the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice as a student; that she had a surname indicates that she was not a foundling as were most of the Pièta wards, but a tuition-paying pupil (figlia de spesi). She studied with the maestra di viola, Candida della Pièta (who herself had been admitted into the coro in 1707)

Anna Amalia of Brunswick

Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (24 October 1739 – 10 April 1807), was a German princess and composer. She became the duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, by marriage, and was also regent of the states of Saxe-Weimar and Saxe-Eisenach from 1758 to 1775. She transformed her court and its surrounding into the most influential cultural center of Germany.

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