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Dear You
I´m from Denmark, reading the book ” Invisible Women” of Caroline Criado Perez in danish´.
All this unknown women in music, or shall we say, unspoken !!! It´s a mans world !!
Happy, that I found this website, and have printet some of Barbara Strozzi piano melodies
I played piano as a child, and have startet again now as a pensionist 69 years old.
Thank you for keeping this website <3 <3 <3
Many greetings Lisbet Skou
Hi Lisbet,
Thank you for your kind words. It is certainly more complicated to find music by women composers, especially from the baroque, classical, romantic and early 20th century. It was more difficult for them to start a career as a composer or concert pianist in those years. In fact, many women published pieces using pseudonyms, as for example, in the case of Fanny Mendelssohn, who probably published some pieces on behalf of her brother Felix.
I am a man managing this website and one of the things I intend to do is to make easier the access to wonderful music composed by women but hidden somehow throughout history. If you have browsed the website you may have found pieces by composers such as Clara Schumann, Amy Beach, Mel Bonis, De la Guerre, Maria Szymanowska and Gambarini.
Kind regards.