Select List of Women Composers
Alphabetical by Last Name
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Birth -- Death . . Name
- 00 00 -- 00 00 . . Harriet Abrams
- 19 28 -- 00 00 . . Luna Alcalay
- 15 70 -- xx xx . . Raffaela Aleotti
- 15 75 -- xx xx . . Vittoria Aleotti
- 17 39 -- 18 07 . . Anna Amalia Duchess of Saxe Weimar
- 17 23 -- 17 87 . . Anna Amalia Princess of Prussia
- 18 41 -- 19 29 . . Elfrida Andree
- 19 03 -- 19 90 . . Claude Arrieu
- 18 20 -- 18 79 . . Fanny Arthur
- 18 60 -- 19 29 . . Valborg Aulin
- 19 13 -- 19 69 . . Grazyna Bacewicz
- 00 00 -- 00 00 . . Sophia Baker
- 18 47 -- 19 07 . . Agathe Backer-Grondahl
- 18 38 -- 18 61 . . Thekla Badarzewska
- 17 31 -- 17 64 . . Elisabetta de Bambanini
- 18 19 -- 19 05 . . Laura W. Barker (Mrs. Tom Taylor)
- 18 30 -- 18 69 . . Mrs. Barnard
- 19 10 -- 00 00 . . Elsa Barraine
- 18 87 -- 19 55 . . Marian Bauer (Marion)
- 18 67 -- 19 44 . . H. H. A. (Amy Marcy Cheney) Beach
- 11 40 -- 12 12 . . Countess Beatrice of Dia
- 11 40 -- 12 12 . . Countess Beatrice of Dia
- 16 70 -- xx xx . . Antonia Bembo
- 10 98 -- 11 79 . . Hildegard von Bingen
- 18 95 -- 19 52 . . Henriette Bosmans
- 18 93 -- 19 18 . . Lili Juliette Marie Olga Boulanger
- 18 87 -- 19 79 . . Nadia Juliette Boulanger
- 19 40 -- 00 00 . . Anne Boyd
- 18 81 -- 19 77 . . Gena Branscombe
- 18 63 -- 19 52 . . Dora Bright
- 18 40 -- 18 80 . . Ingeborg von Bronsart
- 15 87 -- 16 40 . . Francesca Caccini
- 18 90 -- 19 78 . . Marguerite Canal
- 17 67 -- 18 34 . . Amelie Julie Candeille
- 19 22 -- 00 00 . . Doreen Carwithen
- 15 40 -- 15 83 . . Maddalena Casulana
- 18 47 -- 19 44 . . Cecile Chaminade
- 17 40 -- 18 05 . . Isabelle de Charriere
- 18 86 -- 19 79 . . Rebecca Clarke
- 17 85 -- 18 45 . . Isabella Colbran
- 12 00 -- 12 xx . . Dame Costelloza
- 18 78 -- 19 71 . . Mabel Wheeler Daniels ?1960
- 17 68 -- 18 00 . . Margarethe Danzi
- 19 21 -- 19 68 . . Jeanne-Marie-Madeleine Demessieux
- 19 27 -- 00 00 . . Emma Lou Diemer
- 19 05 -- 00 00 . . Shula Doniach
- 19 01 -- 19 75 . . Isobel Dunlop
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- 17 xx -- 17 xx . . Mlle Edelmann
- 18 04 -- 18 75 . . Jeanne-Louise Dumont Farrenc
- 19 31 -- 00 00 . . Sofia Asgatovna Gabaidulina
- 19 62 -- 00 00 . . Nana Gabshvili
- 19 06 -- 00 00 . . Miriam Gideon
- 19 21 -- 00 00 . . Ruth Gipps
- 19 12 -- 19 90 . . Peggy Glanville-Hicks
- 17 72 -- 17 90 . . Lucille Gretry
- 16 59 -- 17 29 . . Elizabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre ?1666
- 18 90 -- 19 69 . . Pauline Hall
- 18 58 -- 19 36 . . Guy d' Hardelot (pseud of Helen Rhodes)
- 19 15 -- 00 00 . . Pamela Harrison
- 18 05 -- 18 47 . . Fanny Cacilie Mendelssohn Hensel
- 18 41 -- 19 18 . . Louise Pauline Marie Heritte-Viardot
- 18 47 -- 19 03 . . Augusta May Anne Holmes (pseud: Hermann
Zenta)
- 19 07 -- 19 84 . . Imogen Holst
- 19 37 -- 00 00 . . Katherine Hoover
- 18 82 -- 19 64 . . Mary Howe
- 18 98 -- 19 82 . . Dorothy Howell
- 18 62 -- 19 46 . . Carrie Jacobs-Bond
- 18 46 -- 19 25 . . Marie Jaëll
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- 19 15 -- 19 40 . . Vitezslava Kapralova
- 19 39 -- 00 00 . . Barbara Kolb
- 18 15 -- 18 80 . . Josephine Lang
- 19 50 -- 00 00 . . Libby Larsen
- 19 47 -- 00 00 . . Nicola LeFanu
- 18 62 -- 19 18 . . Liza Lehmann
- 16 20 -- 17 04 . . Isabella Leonarda
- 19 06 -- 19 83 . . Elisabeth Lutyens (Elizabeth?)
- 19 07 -- 00 00 . . Dame Elizabeth Maconchy
- 18 79 -- 19 64 . . Alma Mahler
- 18 53 -- 18 94 . . Amanda Maier
- 17 44 -- 18 12 . . Marianna von Martines (Martinez) 1745?
- 15 42 -- 16 17 . . Tarquinia Molza
- 18 73 -- 19 57 . . Mary Carr Moore
- 19 28 -- 00 00 . . Thea Musgrave
- 18 39 -- 19 27 . . Laura Netzel
- 19 29 -- 00 00 . . Alexandra Nikolayevna Pakhmutova
- 17 59 -- 18 24 . . Maria Theresia von Paradis
- 19 12 -- 00 00 . . Oliveros Pauline
- 19 12 -- 00 00 . . Barbara Pentland
- 19 24 -- 19 79 . . Julia Perry
- 16 81 -- 17 28 . . Anne Danican Philidor (** Actually a
man, despite the name **)
- 13 63 -- 14 31 . . Christine de Pisan
- 18 79 -- 19 32 . . Poldowski (pseud of: Irene Regine
Wieniawska)
- 19 26 -- 00 00 . . Claire Polin
- 19 05 -- 19 87 . . Elizabeth Poston
- 18 88 -- 19 53 . . Florence Price
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- 19 03 -- 19 86 . . Priaulx Rainier
- 18 xx -- 18 xx . . Cathrine Felicie van Rees
- 17 52 -- 17 83 . . Juliane Reichardt
- 17 79 -- 18 26 . . Louise Reichardt
- 18 58 -- 19 36 . . Helen Rhodes (pseud: Guy d' Hardelot)
- 19 26 -- 00 00 . . Marga Richter
- 19 49 -- 00 00 . . Marjorie M. Rusche
- 17 xx -- 17 xx . . Jane Savage
- 18 94 -- 19 70 . . Philippine Schick
- 17 51 -- 18 02 . . Elisabeth Schmelling (pseud: Corona
Schröter)
- 19 24 -- 00 00 . . Ruth Schonthal
- 17 51 -- 18 02 . . Corona Schröter (pseud of Elisabeth
Schmelling)
- 18 19 -- 18 96 . . Clara Wieck Schumann
- 19 01 -- 19 53 . . Ruth Crawford Seeger
- 17 35 -- 17 98 . . Maddalena Laura Lombardini Sirmen (Syrmen)
- 18 58 -- 19 44 . . Dame Ethel Mary Smyth
- 18 58 -- 19 44 . . Ethel Smyth
- 16 19 -- 16 64 . . Barbara Strozzi
- 17 89 -- 18 31 . . Maria Agatha Szymanowska
- 18 92 -- 19 83 . . Germaine Tailleferre
- 19 06 -- 19 96 . . Louise Talma
- 19 11 -- 00 00 . . Phyllis Margaret Duncan Tate
- 18 19 -- 19 05 . . Mrs. Tom Taylor (Laura W. Barker)
- 18 64 -- 19 43 . . Alice Tegner
- 19 64 -- 00 00 . . Augusta Read Thomas
- 19 xx -- 00 00 . . Ellen R. Thompson
- 19 15 -- 00 00 . . Joan Trimble
- 11 65 -- 12 21 . . Maria de Ventadorn
- 18 21 -- 19 10 . . Michelle Pauline Viardot-Garcia
- 17 xx -- 17 xx . . Antonia Amalia Walpurgia (ETPA)
- 18 55 -- 19 37 . . Maude Valerie White
- 18 79 -- 19 32 . . Irene Regine Wieniawska (pseud: Poldowski)
- 19 41 -- 00 00 . . Margaret Lucy Wilkins
- 19 06 -- 19 77 . . Grace Williams
- 17 50 -- 17 xx . . Maria Carolina Wolf
- 18 60 -- 19 19 . . Amy Woodford-Finden-Ward
- 19 45 -- 00 00 . . Judith Lang Zaimont
- 18 47 -- 19 03 . . Hermann Zenta (pseud of: Augusta May Anne
Holmes)
- 19 39 -- 00 00 . . Ellen Taafe Zwilich
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Dates used were based on:
- Authority records in the IUCAT database of Indiana University
Libraries.
- Baker, Theodore. Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians.
8th
ed. Revised by Nicolas Slonimsky. New York: Schirmer Books; New York :
Maxwell Macmillan International, c1992.
- Dearling, Robert. The Guinness Book of Music. 3rd ed.
London:
Guinness
Books, 1986. [pp. 62-65]
- Drucker, Ruth, and Helen Strine, eds. A Collection of Art
Songs by
Women
Composers. Beltsville, MD: HERS Publishing, 1988.
- Jezic, Diane. Women Composers: The Lost Tradition Found.
2nd
ed.
prepared by Elizabeth Wood. New York: Feminist Press at the City
University
of New York, c1994. [pp. vii-ix]
- Milo Wold, Edmund Cykler. An Outline History of Music.
6th ed.
Dubuque,
Iowa: W.C. Brown, c1985.
Some dates were unsure or sources differed. Optional dates are
marked
with a question mark. If you find any errors in spelling or dates,
please
send a message to smithdk@email.uah.edu,
and be sure to cite the authoritative source.
When the composer is assumed to be alive, or where no death dates
are
available, the date 00 00 is used. When century is probable, but not
year,
xx is used.
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