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Five lives in music : women performers, composers, and impresarios from the baroque to the present / Cecelia Hopkins Porter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Porter, Cecelia Hopkins.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women musicians--Biography.
- Women musicians.
- Women composers--Biography.
- Women composers.
- Musicians--Biography.
- Musicians.
- Composers--Biography.
- Composers.
- Sophie Elisabeth, Duchess, consort of August, Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, 1613-1676.
- Sophie Elisabeth.
- Jacquet de La Guerre, Elisabeth-Claude, 1665-1729.
- Jacquet de La Guerre, Elisabeth-Claude.
- Lang, Josephine, 1815-1880.
- Lang, Josephine.
- Bach, Maria, 1896-1978.
- Bach, Maria.
- Schein, Ann.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (264 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- 5 lives in music
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Representing a historical cross-section of performance and training in Western music since the 17th century, this book brings to light the private and performance lives of five remarkable women musicians and composers.
- Contents:
- Duchess Sophie-Elisabeth : composer, harpsichordist, and impresario in the North German baroque
- Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre : Versailles and Paris in the twilight of the ancien régime
- Josephine Lang : the music of romanticism in South German cultural life
- Maria Bach : Vienna from imperial splendor to the Second Republic
- Ann Schein : an American concert pianist in today's world.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-237) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-252-09413-1
- 1-283-99251-5
- OCLC:
- 826684855
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