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Author:

Porter, Cecelia Hopkins.

Title:

Five lives in music : women performers, composers, and impresarios from the baroque to the present / Cecelia Hopkins Porter.

Publisher:

University of Illinois Press,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

xiv, 244 p. : ill., music ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Women musicians--Biography.
Women composers--Biography.
Sophie Elisabeth,--Duchess, consort of August, Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg,--1613-1676.
Jacquet de La Guerre, Elisabeth-Claude,--1665-1729.
Lang, Josephine,--1815-1880.
Bach, Maria,--1896-1978.
Schein, Ann.
Musicians--Biography.
Composers--Biography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN:

0252037014 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780252037016 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)769232494

LCCN:

2011051102

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)