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From: cb@tamarack12.timbuk (Chris Brewster)
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Subject: Re: Women Composers
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Date: 20 Mar 91 23:04:14 GMT
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Here are some other obvious names:

    Hildegard of Bingen, a true Renaissance man except that she was a woman and
    about 400 years before the Renaissance.

    Fanny Mendelssohn

    Elisabeth Schumann

    Alma Mahler

    Germaine Tailleferre (one of the French "Six")

    Ellen Taffe Zwilich, Pulitzer winner, and very solid IMO

Also, a very good composer of rags was ___ Aufderheide, forgot her first name.
Virginia Eskin has recorded some of her work.

I think people interested in women composers should be careful to avoid the
"affirmative action" aspect of it (and the resultant overrating that can occur).
Considering these composers without any reference to gender, I would still take
an interest in Bingen, Seeger, Zwillich, and Musgrave.  I agree with the
previous poster that Musgrave is probably the best.

Christopher Brewster