Women composers in new perspectives, 1800-1950 : genres, contexts, and repertoire / edited by Mariateresa Storino and Susan Wollenberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Storino, Mariateresa, editor.

Wollenberg, Susan, editor.

Series:

Speculum musicae ; v. 49.

Speculum musicae ; volume XLIX

Language:

English

French

Italian

Subjects (All):

Women composers--19th century--Criticism and interpretation.

Women composers.

Music by women composers--19th century--History and criticism.

Music by women composers.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings

Physical Description:

xi, 350 pages : illustrations, music ; 27 cm.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout : Brepols, 2023.

Language Note:

Articles principally in English; one article in Italian, one article in French; includes abstracts and biographical information in English.

Contents:

(Why) do we need "women composers"? / Susan Wollenberg

"She is not a woman composer

yet a composer, and also a woman" : la creatività femminile "oltre" il genere / Mariateresa Storino

"She is the first, she is the only one of her sex who has vanquished on the operatic stage" : the career of Sophie Gail at the Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique, 1813-1818 / Florence Launay

Louise Farrenc's piano études : dates, purpose, reception, and function / Maria Stratigou

Hensel the progressive : narrative strategies in Fanny Hensel's Piano trio, op. 11 and Felix Mendelssohn's String quartet, op. 80 / Siegwart Reichwald

Countess Elise von Schlik (Eliška Šliková) : salonnière, patroness, composer / Anja Bunzel

A Swiss woman in Italy : Fanny Hünerwadel on her study trip 1853-1854 / Christine Fischer

L'ascension des femmes vers les classes de composition : le cas du Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles au XIXe siècle / Fauve Bougard

Les organistes oubliées : forgotten female organist-composers of France / Steven Young

The emancipation of female musical writing in post-Victorian England : from song-cycles to phantasies : the society of women musicians / Orietta Caianiello

Grace Williams and Welsh music : triads, orchestral music, and new beginnings / Rhiannon Mathias

"Perhaps what men call a sin..." : an examination of Ethel Smyth's The prison / Amy E. Zigler

The compositional œuvre of two Viennese "higher daughters" : Else Réthi and Vilma Webenau (c. 1900-1950) / Elisabeth Kappel

Yvonne Loriod, ultramodernist : preliminary glimpses of a compositional legacy / Peter Asimov

Chamber music and concertos for horn/s by women composers : a survey / Daniel Lienhard

"You lack men's creativity" : music and women in prisons under Franco (1938-1948) / Elsa Calero-Carramolino.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9782503606309

250360630X

OCLC:

1377003867

Publisher Number:

9782503606309