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For women composing art (classical) music. This category is composed of links to composers listed in categories of Arts: Music: Composition: Composers and lists sites presenting information about women composers in general.

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• Agnesi, Maria Teresa d'
• Alberga, Eleanor
• Ali-Zadeh, Franghiz
• Alrich, Alexis
• Anderson, Olive
• Ansink, Caroline
• Archer, Violet Balestreri
• Bacewicz, Grazyna
• Backer Gröndahl, Agathe
• Bond, Victoria
• Bonds, Margaret
• Boulanger, Lili
• Boulanger, Nadia Juliette
• Caccini, Francesca
• Carcas, Gillian
• Carlos, Wendy
• Chaminade, Cécile Louise Stephanie
• Chen Yi
• Clarke, Rebecca
• Coulthard, Jean
• Doncaster, Sara
• Farrenc, Louise
• Fields, Dorothy
• Figueroa, Adriana
• Fine, Vivian
• Folio, Cynthia
• Fullman, Ellen
• Gideon, Miriam
• Gubaidulina, Sofia
• Hensel, Fanny
• Hildegard
• Holmès, Augusta Mary Anne
• Hutchinson, Brenda
• Kanno, Yôko
• Kapralova, Vitezslava
• La Barbara, Joan
• Lang, Josephine
• LeFanu, Nicola
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• Lutyens, Elisabeth
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• Manziarly, Marcelle de
• Martinez, Odaline de la
• Masaoka, Miya
• Monk, Meredith
• Moore, Undine Smith
• Musgrave, Thea
• Newman, Maria
• Norman, Katharine
• Okoye, Nkeiru
• Oliveros, Pauline
• Payne, Maggi
• Perry, Julia Amanda
• Phillips, Anne
• Price, Florence
• Ran, Shulamit
• Rubin, Anna
• Schindler, Alma
• Schumann, Clara
• Seeger, Ruth Crawford
• Sirmen, Maddalena Lombardini
• Tailleferre, Germaine
• Tanaka, Karen
• Tower, Joan
• Wagner, Melinda
• Weir, Judith
• Zaimont, Judith Lang
• Zwillich, Ellen Taaffe

Resources in This Category

• Albritton, Anne

  http://yrmusic.com/v2/artists/bios/artist.php?ID=68
  Arranger, pianist, and theorist in Dallas.

• Andrews, Nicola Ellis

  http://www.composer.co.uk/composers/andrews.html
  Cornelius Cardew Composition Prize winner. Working by herself and also collaboratively with her husband poet Phil Andrews McGovern.

• Beglarian, Eve

  http://www.evbvd.com/
  Composer and performer Eve Beglarian, whose work ranges from art music to electronic music.

• Dimoff, Eleanor

  http://www.andrys.com/eleanor_dimoff/artists/73/eleanor_.htm
  "Conservatively classical, with occasional forays into jazz forms or experiments in sound."

• Edwards, Clara

  http://www.evan-and-jami.com/jami/clara/edwards.html
  American songwriter, 1880 to 1974. About her life and her music.

• Ellen, Jane

  http://www.janeellen.com/
  American composer Jane Ellen (ASCAP) with biography, works, and other musings.

• Huber, Ruth

  http://yrmusic.com/v2/artists/bios/artist.php?ID=73
  "Classically trained and eclectically inclined" composer.

• Jordan, Cynthia

  http://www.freewebs.com/cynthiaspeaks/
  Composer of piano music who seeks to create a peaceful environment with her music. Biography and recordings.

• Kaiser, Shirley

  http://www.shirleykaiser.com/
  Concert pianist and composer of classical and healing music. Masterclasses, workshops, and recordings.

• Milstein, Silvina

  http://www.composer.co.uk/composers/milstein.html
  Lecturer in music at King's College London, author of a book on Schoenberg, and composer of orchestral and chamber music.

• Munn, Zae

  http://yrmusic.com/v2/artists/bios/artist.php?ID=114
  "Associate Professor of Music at Saint Mary's College in South Bend, Indiana where she has taught composition, theory, and orchestration since 1990."

• Musician's Biographies

  http://www.hildegard.com/
  Scores of short biographies about women composers throughout time. From Hildegard Publishing Company.

• Plowman, Lynne

  http://www.composer.co.uk/composers/plowman.html
  Composer and flautist living in Wales.

• Serter, Jane

  http://www.composer.co.uk/composers/serter.html
  British composer. "Her music displays an enjoyment of opposites and extremes."

• Stephan, Naomi

  http://yrmusic.com/v2/artists/bios/artist.php?ID=79
  Choral composer living in California.

• The Woman Composer Question

  http://www.kapralova.org/BIBLIOGRAPHY.htm
  Bibliography of women composers, by Eugene Gates, Ed.D.

• Webb, Orianna

  http://www.foolfactory.com/annaWEBSITE/
  Composer of chamber and orchestral music.

• Williamson, Chris

  http://yrmusic.com/v2/artists/bios/artist.php?ID=51
  Musical activist and popular music pioneer and composer.

• Women Composers

  http://www.kapralova.org/DATABASE.htm
  A database of women whose music has been recorded on CD.

• Women in Czech Music

  http://www.kapralova.org/WOMEN.htm
  Promotes composers, past and present; includes links.

• Women of Note

  http://oboeclassics.com/~oboe3583/ambache/wIndex.htm
  Descriptions of many female composers and their works.

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