Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music

Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music

by Anna Beer
Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music

Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music

by Anna Beer

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Overview

The hidden history of the women who dared to write music in a man’s world.

‘Lucid, engaging and exuberant... [Sounds and Sweet Airs] is terrifically enjoyable and accessible, and leaves one hankering for a second volume.’ The Sunday Times

Francesca Caccini. Barbara Strozzi. Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre. Marianna Martines. Fanny Hensel. Clara Schumann. Lili Boulanger. Elizabeth Maconchy.

Since the birth of classical music, women who dared compose have faced a bitter struggle to be heard. In spite of this, female composers continued to create, inspire and challenge. Yet even today so much of their work languishes unheard.

Anna Beer reveals the highs and lows experienced by eight composers across the centuries, from Renaissance Florence to twentieth-century London, restoring to their rightful place exceptional women whom history has forgotten.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781780748573
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Publication date: 04/07/2016
Sold by: SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format: eBook
Pages: 384
Sales rank: 760,657
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Anna Beer is a cultural historian, and the author of biographies of Milton and Lady Bess Raleigh. She is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford. She lives in Oxford, England.
Anna Beer is a cultural historian and biographer. She is author of Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music and Patriot or Traitor: The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh, as well as biographies of Bess Throckmorton, William Shakespeare and John Milton. She is a Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College, University of Oxford.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations ix

Notes from the Silence 1

1 Caccini 11

2 Strozzi 53

3 Jacquet de la Guerre 89

4 Martines 129

5 Hensel 159

6 Schumann 205

7 Boulanger 243

8 Maconchy 287

Endnote 325

Further Listening: A Highly Personal Playlist 331

Glossary 335

Further Reading 343

Works Consulted 346

Acknowledgements 355

Index 357

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