Includes bibliographical references and index (pages 339-350).
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. Ziegler -- 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.
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