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

Porter, Cecelia Hopkins,

Five lives in music : women performers, composers, and impresarios from the baroque to the present / Cecelia Hopkins Porter. - 264 pages : illustrations (black and white)

Originally published: 2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Specialized.

9780252080098 (pbk.) : £18.99


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.


Women musicians--Biography.
Women composers--Biography.
Musicians--Biography.
Composers--Biography.
Biography.
Biography.

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