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« Reply #30 on: March 29, 2017, 01:05:27 pm »

One surprising omission so far is Dora Pejačevič (1885-1923) a late-romantic Croatian composer whose works are appearing on CPO. Also, I think Vítězslava Kaprálová (1915-1940) has been missed out, who actually made it to "Composer of the Week" on BBC Radio 3 last year. Another one who sadly died young.
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« Reply #31 on: March 29, 2017, 02:34:08 pm »

http://www.rosalindcarlson.com/
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« Reply #32 on: March 29, 2017, 02:46:53 pm »

Clive... I mentioned Lydia Auster in the very first post. 

OK - so I got one wrong; lawsuit ?
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« Reply #33 on: March 29, 2017, 08:24:54 pm »

Definitely lawsuit! You have crimed bigly!!!
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« Reply #34 on: March 29, 2017, 08:37:55 pm »

Definitely lawsuit! You have crimed bigly!!!

Yeah...about all I ever have done on this forum, by the sound of it.
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« Reply #35 on: April 05, 2017, 01:48:33 am »

http://www.margaritakuss.ru/en/
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« Reply #36 on: April 05, 2017, 03:24:36 am »

yes bigly.!!
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« Reply #37 on: April 05, 2017, 07:32:47 pm »

I just wish people like Margarita Kuss got more attention, I had the ancient CD with her Lyric Suite and thought she was quite estimable as a composer. Nice to read more about her biographically, thanks toby
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« Reply #38 on: April 06, 2017, 03:01:36 pm »

yes bigly.!!

Oh, dear - painful !

Mr. Shamus, thank you for getting back 'on track' !
Another lady, well represented on-line...(and not, I think, mentioned in the very first post), is Hanna Kulenty from Poland; some most attractive works, to my untutored mind.
From a very different provenance, but good to see such composers appearing in societies where once.... : Mei-Mi Lan from Taiwan.
Has anyone mentioned Myriam Marbe from Romania ? (Sorry if you have...please don't write in !) Quite a reputation in her country, & a powerful, unconventional Requiem which I'm listening to now.
Isabel Mundry from Germany is another forging quite a reputation.
Another Canadian, after Schmidt & Fung : Kelly-Marie Murphy....again quite well represented on-line.
One I certainly shouldn't have missed off before: Onute Narbutaite from Lithuania.  -  Uggghh...I'm losing track of who has/hasn't - Olga Neuwirth, anyone ? She surely must be up there, though personally...!
Gabriela Ortiz from Mexico - much more my 'scene'. Oh, and have we had Tatiana Smirnova ? Like Pavlova & the Firsovas, very approachable.

Feel as if I ought to start apologising to those ladies whom we haven't mentioned - & there are still plenty !  Maybe it's time for another topic? I'll certainly sign off from this one here.


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« Reply #39 on: April 06, 2017, 07:02:35 pm »

Clive, I say mention away, we may never run out of woman composers to talk about and wonder about their music, but almost inevitably we will actually hear little of it. I am very taken with Kulenty and her colleagues Lidia Zielinska. Bacewicz was already mentioned and I would like to hear some of the unrecorded symphonies, though I was a bit disappointed in her Symphonies 3 and 4 but love her piano quintets and concertos. I was able to talk some libraries out of recordings of Americans Edna Pietsch (actually my friend Bob found more than I did), Radie Britain and Gloria Swisher, naming them and not caring if already named. Anyway, I find their music quite interesting if not Beethovenish or Bachish, which is my standard of excellence--one very hard to reach. One American composer who intrigues me mightily is Julia Perry who wrote 12 symphonies, yet very little of her music is on record, an ancient CRI lp had an orchestral piece by her. Wonder where her archive lies hidden? Anybody knows, would love to hear about it. I second an earlier stated desire to hear Chaminades "Les Amazones" and "Callirhoë. And on and on......
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« Reply #40 on: April 07, 2017, 09:21:53 pm »

You won't hear Chaminade's "Les Amazones", unless someone re-orchestrates it as the full score and parts are lost. A great loss indeed, IMHO, having read through the vocal score.
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« Reply #41 on: April 07, 2017, 09:49:14 pm »


Toby, you found a composer I never heard of. Very russian, although she was half german.
There is also a connection with Shostakovich; they were long distance friends.

A few of her songs can be found on "classical music online"
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« Reply #42 on: April 07, 2017, 09:56:08 pm »

Although a minority, I find (a) composition(s) from some 680 female composers in my collection.
And there are many more I am sure. Margarita Kuss is the latest name (Thanks to Toby).

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« Reply #43 on: April 08, 2017, 12:51:01 pm »

Although a minority, I find (a) composition(s) from some 680 female composers in my collection.
And there are many more I am sure. Margarita Kuss is the latest name (Thanks to Toby).

Wow- not sure life's long enough to work out how many I've downloaded - however, Mr Elroel...you win - by a distance !
Hope the point is that they're nothing like such a rarity as once they were. Might even be a 'sexist' crime (well, everything else is in UK !) to suggest that there's any disparity between 'men'/'women' composers; oh, sorry, no doubt would have to include 'transgender' composers now.
Does it actually matter - they're musically gifted human beings, they compose - we enjoy listening !
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« Reply #44 on: April 09, 2017, 12:29:10 am »

What he said! (Clive)
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