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Select List of Women Composers

Chronological by Birthdate

Birth -- Death . . Name

10 98 -- 11 79 . . Hildegard von Bingen

11 40 -- 12 12 . . Countess Beatrice of Dia

12 00 -- 12 xx . . Dame Costelloza

11 65 -- 12 21 . . Maria de Ventadorn

13 63 -- 14 31 . . Christine de Pisan

15 40 -- 15 83 . . Maddalena Casulana

15 42 -- 16 17 . . Tarquinia Molza

15 70 -- xx xx . . Raffaela Aleotti

15 75 -- xx xx . . Vittoria Aleotti

15 87 -- 16 40 . . Francesca Caccini

16 19 -- 16 64 . . Barbara Strozzi

16 20 -- 17 04 . . Isabella Leonarda

16 59 -- 17 29 . . Elizabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre ?1666

16 70 -- xx xx . . Antonia Bembo

16 81 -- 17 28 . . Anne Danican Philidor (** Actually a man, despite the name **)

17 xx -- 17 xx . . Mlle Edelmann

17 xx -- 17 xx . . Jane Savage

17 xx -- 17 xx . . Antonia Amalia Walpurgia (TPA)

17 23 -- 17 87 . . Anna Amalia Princess of Prussia

17 31 -- 17 64 . . Elisabetta de Bambanini

17 35 -- 17 98 . . Maddalena Laura Lombardini Sirmen (Syrmen)

17 39 -- 18 07 . . Anna Amalia Duchess of Saxe Weimar

17 40 -- 18 05 . . Isabelle de Charriere

17 44 -- 18 12 . . Marianna von Martines (Martinez) 1745?

17 50 -- 17 xx . . Maria Carolina Wolf

17 51 -- 18 02 . . Elisabeth Schmelling (pseud: Corona Schröter)

17 51 -- 18 02 . . Corona Schröter (pseud of Elisabeth Schmelling)

17 52 -- 17 83 . . Juliane Reichardt

17 59 -- 18 24 . . Maria Theresia von Paradis

17 67 -- 18 34 . . Amelie Julie Candeille

17 68 -- 18 00 . . Margarethe Danzi

17 72 -- 17 90 . . Lucille Gretry

17 79 -- 18 26 . . Louise Reichardt

17 85 -- 18 45 . . Isabella Colbran

17 89 -- 18 31 . . Maria Agatha Szymanowska

18 xx -- 18 xx . . Cathrine Felicie van Rees

18 04 -- 18 75 . . Jeanne-Louise Dumont Farrenc

18 05 -- 18 47 . . Fanny Cacilie Mendelssohn Hensel

18 15 -- 18 80 . . Josephine Lang

18 19 -- 19 05 . . Laura W. Barker (Mrs. Tom Taylor)

18 19 -- 18 96 . . Clara Wieck Schumann

18 19 -- 19 05 . . Mrs. Tom Taylor (Laura W. Barker)

18 20 -- 18 79 . . Fanny Arthur

18 21 -- 19 10 . . Michelle Pauline Viardot-Garcia

18 30 -- 18 69 . . Mrs. Barnard

18 38 -- 18 61 . . Thekla Badarzewska

18 39 -- 19 27 . . Laura Netzel

18 40 -- 18 80 . . Ingeborg von Bronsart

18 41 -- 19 29 . . Elfrida Andree

18 41 -- 19 18 . . Louise Pauline Marie Heritte-Viardot

18 46 -- 19 25 . . Marie Jaëll

18 47 -- 19 07 . . Agathe Backer-Grondahl

18 47 -- 19 44 . . Cecile Chaminade

18 47 -- 19 03 . . Augusta May Anne Holmes (pseud: Hermann Zenta)

18 47 -- 19 03 . . Hermann Zenta (pseud of: Augusta May Anne Holmes)

18 53 -- 18 94 . . Amanda Maier

18 55 -- 19 37 . . Maude Valerie White

18 58 -- 19 36 . . Guy d' Hardelot (pseud of Helen Rhodes)

18 58 -- 19 36 . . Helen Rhodes (pseud: Guy d' Hardelot)

18 58 -- 19 44 . . Dame Ethel Mary Smyth

18 60 -- 19 29 . . Valborg Aulin

18 60 -- 19 19 . . Amy Woodford-Finden-Ward

18 62 -- 19 46 . . Carrie Jacobs-Bond

18 62 -- 19 18 . . Liza Lehmann

18 63 -- 19 52 . . Dora Bright

18 64 -- 19 43 . . Alice Tegner

18 67 -- 19 44 . . H. H. A. (Amy Marcy Cheney) Beach

18 73 -- 19 57 . . Mary Carr Moore

18 78 -- 19 71 . . Mabel Wheeler Daniels ?1960

18 79 -- 19 64 . . Alma Mahler

18 79 -- 19 32 . . Poldowski (pseud of: Irene Regine Wieniawska)

18 79 -- 19 32 . . Irene Regine Wieniawska (pseud: Poldowski)

18 81 -- 19 77 . . Gena Branscombe

18 82 -- 19 64 . . Mary Howe

18 86 -- 19 79 . . Rebecca Clarke

18 87 -- 19 55 . . Marian Bauer (Marion)

18 87 -- 19 79 . . Nadia Juliette Boulanger

18 88 -- 19 53 . . Florence Price

18 90 -- 19 78 . . Marguerite Canal

18 90 -- 19 69 . . Pauline Hall

18 92 -- 19 83 . . Germaine Tailleferre

18 93 -- 19 18 . . Lili Juliette Marie Olga Boulanger

18 94 -- 19 70 . . Philippine Schick

18 95 -- 19 52 . . Henriette Bosmans

18 98 -- 19 82 . . Dorothy Howell

19 xx -- 00 00 . . Ellen R. Thompson

19 01 -- 19 75 . . Isobel Dunlop

19 01 -- 19 53 . . Ruth Crawford Seeger

19 03 -- 19 90 . . Claude Arrieu

19 03 -- 19 86 . . Priaulx Rainier

19 05 -- 00 00 . . Shula Doniach

19 05 -- 19 87 . . Elizabeth Poston

19 06 -- 00 00 . . Miriam Gideon

19 06 -- 19 83 . . Elisabeth Lutyens (Elizabeth?)

19 06 -- 19 96 . . Louise Talma

19 06 -- 19 77 . . Grace Williams

19 07 -- 19 84 . . Imogen Holst

19 07 -- 00 00 . . Dame Elizabeth Maconchy

19 10 -- 00 00 . . Elsa Barraine

19 11 -- 00 00 . . Phyllis Margaret Duncan Tate

19 12 -- 19 90 . . Peggy Glanville-Hicks

19 12 -- 00 00 . . Oliveros Pauline

19 12 -- 00 00 . . Barbara Pentland

19 13 -- 19 69 . . Grazyna Bacewicz

19 15 -- 00 00 . . Pamela Harrison

19 15 -- 19 40 . . Vitezslava Kapralova

19 15 -- 00 00 . . Joan Trimble

19 21 -- 19 68 . . Jeanne-Marie-Madeleine Demessieux

19 21 -- 00 00 . . Ruth Gipps

19 22 -- 00 00 . . Doreen Carwithen

19 24 -- 19 79 . . Julia Perry

19 24 -- 00 00 . . Ruth Schonthal

19 26 -- 00 00 . . Claire Polin

19 26 -- 00 00 . . Marga Richter

19 27 -- 00 00 . . Emma Lou Diemer

19 28 -- 00 00 . . Luna Alcalay

19 28 -- 00 00 . . Thea Musgrave

19 29 -- 00 00 . . Alexandra Nikolayevna Pakhmutova

19 31 -- 00 00 . . Sofia Asgatovna Gabaidulina

19 37 -- 00 00 . . Katherine Hoover

19 39 -- 00 00 . . Barbara Kolb

19 39 -- 00 00 . . Ellen Taafe Zwilich

19 40 -- 00 00 . . Anne Boyd

19 41 -- 00 00 . . Margaret Lucy Wilkins

19 45 -- 00 00 . . Judith Lang Zaimont

19 47 -- 00 00 . . Nicola LeFanu

19 49 -- 00 00 . . Marjorie M. Rusche

19 50 -- 00 00 . . Libby Larsen

19 62 -- 00 00 . . Nana Gabshvili

19 64 -- 00 00 . . Augusta Read Thomas

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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