Julius Giere - Clara Wieck im Alter von 15 Jahren (Lithographie 1835)

Women

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Def ...

s of

Western classical music Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions. It is sometimes distinguished as Western classical music, as the term "classical music" ...

are disproportionately absent from music textbooks and concert programs that constitute the

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, even though many women have composed music. The reasons for women's absence are various. The musicologist

Marcia Citron Marcia Judith Citron (born 1945) is an American professor of musicology at Rice University in Houston, Texas. She is a leading musicologist specializing in issues regarding women and gender, opera and film. Life and career Marcia Citron graduated ...

writing in 1990 noted that many works of musical history and anthologies of music had very few, or sometimes no, references to and examples of music written by women. Among the reasons for historical under-representation of women composers Citron has adduced problems of access to musical education and to the male hierarchy of the musical establishment (performers, conductors, impresarios etc.); condescending attitudes of male reviewers, and their association of women composers with "salon music" rather than music of the concert platform; and denial of female creativity in the arts by philosophers such as

Jean-Jacques Rousseau Jean-Jacques Rousseau (, ; 28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer. His political philosophy influenced the progress of the Age of Enlightenment throughout Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolu ...

and

Immanuel Kant Immanuel Kant (, , ; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers. Born in Königsberg, Kant's comprehensive and systematic works in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and ...

. All this needs to be considered in the perspective of restrictions against women's advancement in cultural, economic and political spheres over a long historical period. Such discrimination against women composers can be considered in the context of general societal attitudes about

gender Gender is the range of characteristics pertaining to femininity and masculinity and differentiating between them. Depending on the context, this may include sex-based social structures (i.e. gender roles) and gender identity. Most culture ...

or perceived roles of men and women, many musicologists and critics have come to incorporate

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in assessing the history and practice of the art. Some notable Western composers include: Hildegard von Bingen (1098–1179), a German Benedictine abbess, writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, visionary, and polymath;

Fanny Mendelssohn Fanny Mendelssohn (14 November 1805 – 14 May 1847) was a German composer and pianist of the early Romantic era who was also known as Fanny (Cäcilie) Mendelssohn Bartholdy and, after her marriage, Fanny Hensel (as well as Fanny Mendelssohn He ...

(1805–1847);

Clara Schumann Clara Josephine Schumann (; née Wieck; 13 September 1819 – 20 May 1896) was a German pianist, composer, and piano teacher. Regarded as one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era, she exerted her influence over the course of a ...

(1819–1896);

Ethel Smyth Dame Ethel Mary Smyth (; 22 April 18588 May 1944) was an English composer and a member of the women's suffrage movement. Her compositions include songs, works for piano, chamber music, orchestral works, choral works and operas. Smyth tended t ...

(1858–1944);

Amy Beach Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (September 5, 1867December 27, 1944) was an American composer and pianist. She was the first successful American female composer of large-scale art music. Her "Gaelic" Symphony, premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in ...

(1867–1944); Rebecca Clarke (1886–1979);

Germaine Tailleferre Germaine Tailleferre (; born Marcelle Germaine Taillefesse; 19 April 18927 November 1983) was a French composer and the only female member of the group of composers known as '' Les Six''. Biography Marcelle Germaine Taillefesse was born at Sain ...

(1892–1983); Lili Boulanger (1893–1918);

Sofia Gubaidulina Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina (russian: Софи́я Асгáтовна Губaйду́лина, link=no , tt-Cyrl, София Әсгать кызы Гобәйдуллина; born 24 October 1931) is a Soviet-Russian composer and an established ...

(1931–); and

Kaija Saariaho Kaija Anneli Saariaho (; ; born 14 October 1952) is a Finnish composer based in Paris, France. During the course of her career, Saariaho has received commissions from the Lincoln Center for the Kronos Quartet and from IRCAM for the Ensemble Inte ...

(1952–). Women composers are also listed alphabetically at

List of women composers by name This article provides a list of women composers, sorted alphabetically by surname. For a list of women composers sorted by year of birth, see List of women composers by birth date. __NOTOC__ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N ...

Before 16th century

Hildegard of Bingen Hildegard of Bingen (german: Hildegard von Bingen; la, Hildegardis Bingensis; 17 September 1179), also known as Saint Hildegard and the Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German Benedictine abbess and polymath active as a writer, composer, philosopher ...

(1098–1179) *

Herrad of Landsberg Herrad of Landsberg ( la, Herrada Landsbergensis; 1130 – July 25, 1195) was a 12th-century Alsatian nun and abbess of Hohenburg Abbey in the Vosges mountains. She was known as the author of the pictorial encyclopedia '' Hortus deliciarum'' (' ...

(c. 1130–1195) *

Azalais de Porcairagues Azalais de Porcairagues (also ''Azalaïs'') or Alasais de Porcaragues was a trobairitz (woman troubadour), composing in Occitan in the late 12th century. The sole source for her life is her '' vida'', which tells us that she came from the count ...

(fl. mid-12th century) *

Iseut de Capio N'Iseut de Capio"N'", contraction of "Na", is an Occitan honorific meaning "Lady". Her first name, sometimes spelled ''Iseuz'', is the Occitan form of Isolde. (born ''c''. 1140) was a noblewoman and trobairitz from Gévaudan. She was a neighbour ...

(c.1140–?) *

Tibors Tibors de Sarenom (French ''Tiburge''; c. 1130 – aft. 1198) is the earliest attestable trobairitz, active during the classical period of medieval Occitan literature at the height of the popularity of the troubadours. Biography Tibors is ...

(fl. mid-12th century) *

Marie de France Marie de France (fl. 1160 to 1215) was a poet, possibly born in what is now France, who lived in England during the late 12th century. She lived and wrote at an unknown court, but she and her work were almost certainly known at the royal court o ...

(1175?–1225?) *

Alamanda de Castelnau Alamanda was a trobairitz whose only surviving work is a ''tenso'' with Giraut de Bornelh called '.Alamanda de Castelnau (1160–1223) ''S'ie us qier conseill, bella amia Alamanda'' Classical music online. In the past she was usually considered fic ...

(fl. second half of 12th century) *

Maria de Ventadorn Maria de Ventadorn (or Ventedorn) (french: Marie de Ventadour) was a patron of troubadour poetry at the end of the 12th century. Maria was one of ''las tres de Torena'', "the three of Turenne", the three daughters of viscount Raymond II of Turenn ...

(fl. late 12th century) *

Beatritz de Dia The Comtessa de Dia (Countess of Die), possibly named Beatritz or Isoarda (fl. c. 1175 or c. 1212), was a trobairitz (female troubadour). She is only known as the ''comtessa de Dia'' in contemporary documents, but was most likely the daughter of ...

(fl. late 12th/early 13th centuries) *

Blanche of Castile Blanche of Castile ( es, Blanca de Castilla; 4 March 1188 – 27 November 1252) was Queen of France by marriage to Louis VIII. She acted as regent twice during the reign of her son, Louis IX: during his minority from 1226 until 1234, and during ...

(1188–1252) *

Castelloza Na Castelloza (fl. early 13th century) was a noblewoman and trobairitz from Auvergne. Life According to her later '' vida'', Castelloza was the wife of Turc de Mairona, probably the lord of Meyronne.''Vidas'', p. 26. Turc's ancestors had partic ...

(fl. early 13th century) * Dame Margot (fl. 13th century) *

Gertrude of Dagsburg Gertrude of Dagsburg (died 30 March 1225) was the reigning countess of Metz and Dagsburg (Dabo) between 1212 and 1225. She was duchess consort of Lorraine by marriage to Theobald. She was a trouvère. She was the daughter and heiress of Albert ...

(fl. 13th century) * Maroie de Dregnau de Lille (fl. 13th century) * Dame Maroie (fl. 13th century) * Sainte des Prez (fl. 13th century) * Lorete (fl. 13th century) * Garsenda de Proensa (fl. early 13th century) *

Birgitta of Sweden Bridget of Sweden (c. 1303 – 23 July 1373) born as Birgitta Birgersdotter, also Birgitta of Vadstena, or Saint Birgitta ( sv, heliga Birgitta), was a mystic and a saint, and she was also the founder of the Bridgettines nuns and monks after t ...

(c.1303–c.1373)

16th century

Gaspara Stampa Gaspara Stampa (1523 – 23 April 1554) was an Italian poet. She is considered to have been the greatest woman poet of the Italian Renaissance, and she is regarded by many as the greatest Italian woman poet of any age. Biography Gaspara's fa ...

(1523–1554) *

Maddalena Casulana Maddalena Casulana (c. 1544 – c. 1590) was an Italian composer, lutenist and singer of the late Renaissance. She is the first female composer to have had a whole book of her music printed and published in the history of western music.Thomas ...

(c.1540–c.1590) * Paola Massarenghi (fl. 1565–1585) * Lucia Quinciani (born c. 1566, fl. 1611) * Claudia Sessa (c. 1570–between 1613 and 1619) * Cesarina Ricci de Tingoli (born c. 1573, fl. 1597) * Vittoria Aleotti (c.1575–''after'' 1620) * Sulpitia Cesis (1577–''after'' 1619) *

Adriana Basile Adriana Basile (c. 1580 – c. 1640) was an Italian composer and singer. Life She was born in Posillipo, and died in Rome. From 1610, she worked for the Gonzagas in Mantua. Members of her family also worked for the court, including her brothers ...

(c. 1580–c. 1640) *

Francesca Caccini Francesca Caccini (; 18 September 1587 – after 1641) was an Italian composer, singer, lutenist, poet, and music teacher of the early Baroque music, Baroque era. She was also known by the nickname "La Cecchina" , given to her by the Florence, Fl ...

(1587–1640?) *

Caterina Assandra Caterina Assandra (c. 1590 – after 1618) was an Italian composer and Benedictine nun. In her surviving motet book, ''Motetti a due a tre voci op.2'', Assandra alludes to her birthplace being in the Province of Pavia. She became famous as an orga ...

(c. 1590–''after'' 1618) * Alba Trissina (ca.1590–''after'' 1638) *

Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana (also "Lucretia") (3 July 1590 – 7 May 1662) was an Italian singer, organist, and composer. She entered the Camaldolese convent of S Christina in Bologna in 1598. She was taught by her aunt, Camilla Bombacci, who was the ...

(1590–1662) * Settimia Caccini (1591–1638?) *

Claudia Rusca Claudia Rusca (1593 – 6 October 1676) was an Italian composer, singer, and organist. She was a nun at the Umiliate monastery of St. Caterina in Brera. She learned music at home, before she professed her final vows at the convent. She probab ...

(1593–1676) * Clementine de Bourges (Unknown date – 1562)

17th century

* Chiara Margarita Cozzolani (1602–1678) *

Leonora Duarte Leonora Duarte (1610 – 1678?) was a Flemish composer and musician, born in Antwerp. She belonged to a wealthy Portuguese-Jewish family who were ''Converso'', meaning they outwardly acted as Catholics while secretly maintaining their Jewish faith ...

(1610–1678) *

Leonora Baroni Leonora Baroni (December 1611 – 6 April 1670)Pannella was an Italian singer, theorbist, lutenist, viol player, and composer. Biography She was the daughter of Adriana Basile, a '' virtuosa'' singer, and Mutio Baroni. Leonora Baroni was born ...

(1611–1670) * Sophie Elisabeth, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1613–1676) * Francesca Campana (c. 1615–1665) *

Barbara Strozzi Barbara Strozzi (also called Barbara Valle; baptised 6 August 1619 – 11 November 1677) was an Italian composer and singer of the Baroque Period. During her lifetime, Strozzi published eight volumes of her own music, and had more secular ...

(1619–1677) * Isabella Leonarda (1620–1704) * Mlle Bocquet (early 17th century–''after'' 1660) * Lady Mary Dering (1629–1704) * Maria Francesca Nascinbeni (c. 1640–1680) * Esther Elizabeth Velkiers (1640–''after'' 1685) * Amalia Catharina (1640–1697) * Antonia Bembo (c. 1640–c. 1720) * Maria Cattarina Calegari (1644–1675) * Marieta Morosina Priuli (fl. 1665) * Mme Sicard (fl.1678) * Rosa Giacinta Badalla (1660–1710) *

Angiola Teresa Moratori Scanabecchi Angiola Teresa Moratori Scanabecchi (1662 – 19 April 1708) was an Italians, Italian composer and painter. Biography Angiola Moratori was born in Bologna, the daughter of a Bolognese physician, and married Tomaso Scanabecchi Monetta. She studied ...

(1662–1708) *

Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre Elizabeth or Elisabeth may refer to: People * Elizabeth (given name), a female given name (including people with that name) * Elizabeth (biblical figure), mother of John the Baptist Ships * HMS ''Elizabeth'', several ships * ''Elisabeth'' (sch ...

(1665–1729) * Françoise-Charlotte de Senneterre Ménétou (1679–1745) * Maria de Raschenau (fl. 1690s–1703) * Michielina Della Pietà (''fl. c.'' 1701–1744) *

Caterina Benedicta Grazianini Caterina Benedicta Grazianini (''1685-1715'') was an Italian composer of oratorios in Vienna. She was among the female composers of oratorios in Vienna who, according to Wellesz, were regular canonesses, rather than employed at the court. This gro ...

(fl. 1705–15 .ca.1685 *

Camilla de Rossi Camilla de Rossi (fl. 1670–1710) was an Italian composer known for composing oratorios in Vienna during the early 1700s. Although several women are known to have composed music in Northern Italy and Austria during this period, there is little r ...

(fl. 1707–1710) * Julie Pinel (fl. 1710–1737) * Maria Margherita Grimani (fl. 1713–1718 .ca.1690 * Mrs Philarmonica (fl. 1715) *

Marie-Anne-Catherine Quinault Marie-Anne-Catherine Quinault (26 August 1695 – 1793) (known as Mademoiselle Quinault , the elder) was a French singer and composer. Quinault was born in Strasbourg. Her father was the actor (1656–1728), and one of her brothers was Jean-Ba ...

(1695–1791)

1701–1750

* Rosanna Scalfi Marcello (1704 or 1705–after 1742) *

Zanetta Farussi Zanetta Farussi, known as " La Buranella" (27 August 1707, Venice – 29 November 1776, Dresden), was an Italian comedic actress. Her eldest son was the famous adventurer Giacomo Casanova. Biography Born Maria Giovanna Farussi, her father, Gir ...

(1707–1776) *

Wilhelmine of Bayreuth Princess Friederike Sophie Wilhelmine of Prussia (3 July 170914 October 1758) was a princess of Prussia (the older sister of Frederick the Great) and composer. She was the eldest daughter of Frederick William I of Prussia and Sophia Dorothea of ...

(1709–1758) * Mlle Guédon de Presles (early 18th century–1754) *

Barbara of Portugal Barbara of Portugal (Maria Madalena Bárbara Xavier Leonor Teresa Antónia Josefa; 4 December 1711 – 27 August 1758) was an Infanta of Portugal, and a Queen of Spain by marriage to Ferdinand VI of Spain. Life Princess of Portugal The marria ...

(1711–1758) * Luise Adelgunda Gottsched (1713–1762) * Santa della Pietà (c. 1715?–after 1774) (''fl. c.'' 1725–1750) * Philippine Charlotte of Prussia (1716–1801) * Mlle Duval (1718–after 1775) * Elisabeth de Haulteterre (c. 1720?–after 1768) (fl. 1737–1768) * Agata Della Pietà (c. 1720?–?) (''fl. c.'' 1800) *

Maria Teresa Agnesi Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini (; ; October 17, 1720 – January 19, 1795) was an Italian composer. Though she was most famous for her compositions, she was also an accomplished harpsichordist and singer, and the majority of her surviving com ...

(1720–1795) * Anna Amalia of Prussia (1723–1787) *

Maria Antonia of Bavaria Maria Antonia, Princess of Bavaria, Electress of Saxony (18 July 1724 – 23 April 1780) was a German princess, composer, singer, harpsichordist and patron of the arts, known particularly for her operas: ''Il trionfo della fedeltà'' (“The ...

(1724–1780) *

Diamante Medaglia Faini Diamante Medaglia Faini (28 August 1724 – 13 June 1770) was an Italian poet. She was a member of the academies Accademia degli Agiati (1751), Accademia degli Orditi in Padua, under the name Nisea Corcirense, and Accademia dell'Arcadia in Rome ...

(1724–1770) * Miss Davis (c. 1726–''after'' 1755) * Elisabetta de Gambarini (1731–1765) * Josina van Aerssen (Baroness Boetzelaer) (1733–1787) * Mme Papavoine (born c. 1735, fl. 1755–61) * Hélène-Louise Demars (''b. c.'' 1736) * Anna Bon (born 1738–1739) * Anna Amalia, Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1739–1807) * Mlle Guerin (born c. 1739, fl. 1755) *

Isabelle de Charrière Isabelle de Charrière (20 October 174027 December 1805), known as Belle van Zuylen in the Netherlands, née Isabella Agneta Elisabeth van Tuyll van Serooskerken, and adameIsabelle de Charrière (married name) elsewhere, was a Dutch and ...

(Belle van Zuylen) (1740–1805) *

Elisabeth Olin Elisabeth Olin née ''Lillström'' (December 1740 – 26 March 1828) was a Swedish opera singer and a music composer. She performed the leading female role in the inauguration performance of the Royal Swedish Opera in 1773, and is referred to ...

(1740–1828) *

Maria Carolina Wolf Maria Carolina Wolf, née Benda, (1742 – 2 August 1820) was a German pianist, singer and composer. Maria Carolina Wolf's father was Franz Benda, first violinist and composer at the court of Frederick II, her aunt Anna Franziska Hattasch wa ...

(1742–1820) * Anne Louise Brillon de Jouy, née Boyvin d'Hardancourt (1744–1824) * Marianna von Martines (1744–1812) * Maddalena Laura Sirmen (1745–1818) * Marie Emmanuelle Bayon Louis (1746–1825) * Genovieffa Ravissa de Turin (1745/50–1807) * Henriette Adélaïde Villard de Beaumesnil (1748–1813) *

Gertrud Elisabeth Mara Gertrud Elisabeth Mara (née Schmeling) (23 February 1749 – 20 January 1833) was a German operatic soprano. Life She was born in Kassel, the daughter of a poor musician, Johann Schmeling. From him she learnt to play the violin, and while st ...

(1749–1833) *

Polly Young Polly Young (also known as Mary Young, Maria Young, Polly Barthélemon and Maria Barthélemon) (7 July 1749 – 20 September 1799) was an English soprano, composer and keyboard player. She was part of a well-known English family of musicians tha ...

, or Maria Barthélemon (1749–1799) * Elizabeth Anspach (1750–1828) *

Elizabeth Joanetta Catherine von Hagen Elizabeth Joanetta Catherine von (van) Hagen (1750–1809) was a Dutch pianist, music educator and composer who lived and worked in the United States. Biography She was born in Amsterdam and married Rotterdam composer, violinist and organist Pet ...

(1750–1809–10)

1751–1800

Maria Anna Mozart Maria Anna Walburga Ignatia Mozart (30 July 1751 – 29 October 1829), called "Marianne" and nicknamed Nannerl, was a musician, the older sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) and daughter of Leopold (1719–1787) and Anna Maria Moz ...

(1751–1829) * Corona Elisabeth Wilhelmine Schröter (1751–1802) * Juliane Reichardt (Juliane Benda) (1752–1783) * Jane Savage (1752/3–1824) * Jeanne Renee de Bombelles (1753–1828) * Charlotte von Brandenstein (1754–1813) *

Josepha Duschek Josepha Duschek (née Hambacher) (1754–1824) was an outstanding soprano of the Classical era. She was a friend of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who wrote a few works for her to sing. Her name is most often given in its German version as above. I ...

(1754–1824) *

Maria Theresia Ahlefeldt , title = Countess of Ahlefeldt-Langeland , image = , caption = , spouse = Ferdinand, Count of Ahlefeldt-Langeland , issue = , house = Thurn und Taxis (by birth) Ahlefeldt (by marriage) ...

(1755–1810) *

Mary Linwood Mary Linwood (1755–1845) was an English needle woman who exhibited her worsted embroidery or crewel embroidery in Leicester and London, and was the school mistress of a private school later known as Mary Linwood Comprehensive School. In 1790 ...

(1755/6–1845) *

Francesca Lebrun Francesca Lebrun (née Danzi; 24 March 1756 – 14 May 1791) was a noted 18th-century German singer and composer. Her talent extended beyond the stage to music composition and keyboard performance. As a composer, her twelve sonatas, six each in ...

(1756–1791) * Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1757–1806) *

Charlotte Caroline Wilhelmine Bachmann Charlotte Caroline Wilhelmine Bachmann, née Stöwe (2 November 1757 – 19 August 1817) was a German soprano singer, harpsichordist and composer. She was born in Berlin, the daughter of musician Wilhelm Heinrich Stöwe, and studied singing and harp ...

(1757–1817) *

Harriett Abrams Harriett Abrams ( 1762 – 8 March 1821, in Torquay) was an English soprano and composer. Particularly praised for her performances in the repertoire of George Frideric Handel, Abrams enjoyed a successful concert career in London during the 1780s ...

(1758–1821) *

Josepha Barbara Auernhammer Josepha Barbara Auernhammer (25 September 1758 – 30 January 1820) was an Austrian pianist and composer. Biography Auernhammer was born in Vienna, the eleventh of fifteen children born to Johann Michael Auernhammer and Elisabeth (nee Timmer, ...

(1758–1820) * Marianna von Auenbrugger (1759–1782) * Maria Rosa Coccia (1759–1833) *

Maria Theresia von Paradis Maria Theresia von Paradis (May 15, 1759 – February 1, 1824) was an Austrian musician and composer who lost her sight at an early age, and for whom her close friend Mozart may have written his Piano Concerto No. 18 in B-flat major. She was al ...

(1759–1824) * Sophia Maria Westenholz (1759–1838) *

Christina Charlotta Cederström Christina may refer to: People * Christina (given name), shared by several people * Christina (surname), shared by several people Places * Christina, Montana, unincorporated community, United States * Christina, British Columbia, Canada * Chri ...

(1760–1832) * Katerina Maier (c. 1760–''after'' 1800) *

Maria Hester Park Maria Hester Park (née Reynolds) (29 September 1760 – 7 June 1813) was a British composer, pianist, and singer. She was also a noted piano teacher who taught many students in the nobility, including the Duchess of Devonshire and her daughte ...

, (1760–1813) * Marie-Elizabeth Cléry (1759–1809) *

Dorothea Jordan Dorothea Jordan, née Bland (21 November 17615 July 1816), was an Anglo-Irish actress, as well as a courtesan. She was the long-time mistress of Prince William, Duke of Clarence, later William IV, and the mother of ten illegitimate children by ...

(1761–1816) *

Yekaterina Sinyavina Yekaterina Alexeyevna Sinyavina (1761–1784) was a Russian composer and pianist. In 1781, at the court of Catherine II she was the harpsichordist for what was probably the first performance of a harpsichord concerto by Giovanni Paisiello. She co ...

(1761–1784) *

Adelheid Maria Eichner Adelheid Maria Eichner (1762–1787) was a German composer, singer and pianist who was noted during her brief lifetime for her fine three-octave singing voice and vocal technique. She was the only child of bassoonist and composer Ernst Eichner an ...

(1762–1787) * Jane Mary Guest (c. 1762–1846) *

Ann Valentine Ann Valentine (11 January 1762 – 13 October 1842 or 13 October 1845) was an English organist and composer, part of a talented family of Leicester musicians. Life Ann Valentine was born on 11 January 1762 in Leicester and christened on 15 Marc ...

(1762–1842) *

Anna Maria Crouch Anna Maria Crouch (20 April 1763 – 2 October 1805), often referred to as Mrs Crouch, was a singer and stage actress in the London theatre. She was (briefly) a mistress of George, Prince of Wales. Biography Born Anna Maria Phillips, she firs ...

(1763–1805) * Helene de Montgeroult (1764–1836) *

Charlotte Wilhelmina Franziska Brandes Charlotte Wilhelmina Franziska Brandes (Minna) (21 May 1765 – 13 June 1788) was a German singer, pianist, actress and composer. She was born in Berlin, the daughter of actress Esther Charlotte Brandes and playwright , and toured with her parents ...

(1765–1788) *

Elizabeth Billington Elizabeth Billington (27 December 1765, in London25 August 1818, in Venice) was a British opera singer. Life She was born on 27 December 1765 in Litchfield Street, Soho, London. She was the daughter of Carl Weichsel, a native of Freiberg, in S ...

(1765–1818) * Jeanne-Hippolyte Devismes (1765–?1834) *

Magdalene Stirling Magdalene Stirling (1765 – 1846) was a Scottish composer best known for ''Twelve Tunes Composed by Miss Stirling of Ardoch'', which she had printed privately in 1796. Stirling was the youngest of five daughters born in Ardoch, Perthshire, to C ...

(1765–1846) * Anne-Marie Krumpholtz (1766–1813) *

Harriet Wainwright Harriet Wainwright Stewart (c. 1766–1843) was a British composer, singer, and writer. A musical entrepreneur, she developed a subscription list of several hundred people and sold at least two of her compositions (''Comala'' and ''Seringapatam'') ...

(c. 1766–1843) * Caroline Wuiet (1766–1835) * Cecilia Maria Barthélemon (1767–1859) * Julie Candeille (1767–1834) *

Margarethe Danzi Maria Margarethe Danzi ( Marchand; 1768 – 11 June 1800) was a German composer and soprano. Maria Margarethe Marchand was born in Germany. Some sources give her birthplace as Munich and others Mannheim, and it was possible that the family was ...

(1768–1800) * Maria Theresa Bland (c. 1769–1838) * Kateřina Veronika Anna Dusíkova (1769–1833) *

Nannette Streicher Nannette Streicher (née Anna-Maria Stein; 2 January 1769, Augsburg – 16 January 1833, Vienna) was a German piano maker, composer, music educator, writer and a close friend of Ludwig van Beethoven. Life Nannette Streicher was the sixth child ...

(1769–1833) * Vincenta Da Ponte (fl. second half 18th century) *

Marianne Sessi Marianne Sessi Natorp (died 10 March 1847) was an Italian soprano and composer. Her birth date is listed as 1770,1771, 1773, or 1776 in various sources. She was best known as a member of the musical Sessi dynasty and a renowned operatic soprano who ...

(177?–1847) * Klementyna Grabowska (Countess Clementine) (1771–1831) *

Lucile Grétry Lucile-Angélique-Dorothée-Louise Grétry (July 15, 1772 – March 1790) was a French composer. The second daughter of the famous composer André Grétry and the painter Jeanne-Marie Grandon, Lucile was trained by her father who introduced her t ...

(1772–1790) * Maria Frances Parke (1772–1822) * Sophie Bawr (1773–1860) *

Maria Brizzi Giorgi Maria Brizzi Giorgi (7 August 1775 – 7 January 1812 in Bologna) was an Italian organist, composer and pianist noted for her improvisational ability. Biography She was born in Bologna into a musical family and began to perform in public at an e ...

(1775–1822) * Sophia Corri Dussek (1775–1847) * Margaret Essex (1775–1807) * Sophie Gail (1775–1819) *

Wilhelmine von Troschke und Rosenwehrt Wilhelmine Auguste Charlotte Helene Apollonia von Troschke und Rosenwerth (1775-1830) was born in Lower Silesia and is considered to be a German composer. She published piano music under the name Wilhelmine von Troschke und Rosenwerth. Wilh ...

(1775–1830) * Sophie Gay (1776–1852) * Mme. Tarbé des Sablons (1777–1855) * Pauline Duchambge (1778–1858) * Louise Reichardt (1779–1826) * Ekaterina Likoshin (fl. 1800–1810) * Sophie Lebrun (1781–1863) *

Charlotta Seuerling Charlotta Antonia "Charlotte Antoinette" Seuerling (1782/1784 – 25 September 1828), was a blind Swedish concert singer, harpsichordist, composer and poet, known as "The Blind Song-Maiden". She was active in Sweden, Finland and Russia. Her la ...

(1782–1828) *

Hortense de Beauharnais Hortense Eugénie Cécile Bonaparte (; , ; 10 April 1783 – 5 October 1837) was Queen consort of Holland. She was the stepdaughter of Emperor Napoléon I as the daughter of his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais. Hortense later married Napo ...

(1783–1837) * Henriette Löfman (1784–1836) * Therese Emilie Henriette Winkel (1784–1867) *

Bettina von Arnim Bettina von Arnim (the Countess of Arnim) (4 April 178520 January 1859), born Elisabeth Catharina Ludovica Magdalena Brentano, was a German writer and novelist. Bettina (or Bettine) Brentano was a writer, publisher, composer, singer, visual art ...

(Bettina Brentano) (1785–1859) * Catherina Cibbini-Kozeluch (1785–1858) *

Isabella Colbran Isabella Angela Colbran (2 February 1785 – 7 October 1845) was a Spanish opera soprano and composer. She was known as the muse and first wife of composer Gioachino Rossini. Early years Colbran was born in Madrid, Spain, to Giovanni Colbran, ...

(1785–1845) * Fanny Krumpholtz Pittar (1785–1815) *

Marie Bigot Marie Kiéné Bigot de Morogues (3 March 1786 – 16 September 1820) was a French pianist and composer. She is best known for her sonatas and études. Career Marie Kiéné was born in Colmar in Alsace. After marrying M. Bigot, she moved to Vienn ...

(1786–1820) *

Caroline Boissier-Butini Caroline Boissier-Butini (2 May 1786 – 9 March 1836) was a Swiss pianist and composer. Career Born Caroline Butini in Geneva, she was the eldest child of Pierre Butini (1759–1838) and Jeanne-Pernette, née Bardin (1764–1841). The musicia ...

(1786–1836) * Le Sénéchal de Kerkado (c. 1786–''after'' 1805) * Wilhelmine Schwertzell (1787–1863) *

Elena Asachi Elena Asachi, née Teyber, (30 October 1789 – May 1877) was a Romanian pianist, singer and composer of Austrian birth. She was the daughter of Austrian composer Anton Teyber and niece of concertmaster Franz Teyber. Elena Teyber was born in ...

(1789–1877) *

Maria Agata Szymanowska Maria Szymanowska (Polish pronunciation: ; born Marianna Agata Wołowska; Warsaw, 14 December 1789 – 25 July 1831, St. Petersburg, Russia) was a Polish composer and one of the first professional virtuoso pianists of the 19th century. She tou ...

(1789–1831) * Harriet Browne (1790–1858) * Gertrude van den Bergh (1793–1840) * Amalie, Princess of Saxony (1794–1870) * Olivia Buckley (born mid-1790s–''after'' 1845) * Mme Delaval (fl. 1791–1802) *

Hedda Wrangel Anna Hedvig "Hedda" Wrangel née ''Lewenhaupt'' (11 December 1792 in Forstena – 24 July 1833, in Ovesholm) was a Swedish composer. Hedda Wrangel was the daughter of colonel count Gustaf Julius Lewenhaupt and Anna Helena Alströmer, and mar ...

(1792–1833) * Caroline Ridderstolpe (1793–1878) *

Helene Liebmann Hélène Liebmann née Riese (16 December 1795 – 2 December 1869) was a German pianist and composer. She was born in Berlin and studied music with Franz Lauska and Ferdinand Ries. A child prodigy, she made her debut before age 13 and publishe ...

(1796–1835) * Mathilda d'Orozco (1796–1863) * Emilie Zumsteeg (1796–1857) *

Annette von Droste-Hülshoff Baroness Anna Elisabeth Franziska Adolphine Wilhelmine Louise Maria von Droste zu Hülshoff, known as Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (; 10 January 179724 May 1848), was a 19th-century German poet, novelist, and composer of Classical music. She was ...

(1797–1848) * Virginie Morel-du Verger (1799–1869) *

Maria Fredrica von Stedingk Maria "Marie" Frederica von Stedingk (31 October 1799 – 15 June 1868) was a Swedish composer and courtier. Stedingk was born in Saint Petersburg to the Swedish Field Marshal Count Kurt von Stedingk and his Swedish housekeeper Ulrika Fredrika ...

(1799–1868) * Filipina Brzezińska-Szymanowska (1800–1886) * Susanna Nerantzi (fl. 1830–1840)

1801–1850

* Marianna Bottini (1802–1858) * Marion Dix Sullivan (1802–1860) *

Eliza Flower Eliza Flower (1803 – 12 December 1846) was a British musician and composer. In addition to her own work, Flower became known for her friendships including those with William Johnson Fox, Robert Browning, John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor. B ...

(1803–1846) *

Anna Sick Anna (or Anne) Laura Sick (born ''Mahir''; 10 July 1803 – 19 February 1895, Berlin?) was a German composer and pianist who served as the court pianist and Mistress of Piano to the court in Stuttgart. Sick was born on 10 July 1803, in Munich as ...

(1803–1895) *

Isidora Zegers Isidora Zegers Montenegro (also known as Isidora Zegers de Huneeus or Isidora Zegers; 1 January 1803 – 14 July 1869) was a Spanish musician and composer. She is known for her contributions to Chilean culture during the 19th century. Biography I ...

(1803–1869) * Louise Farrenc (1804–1875) *

Louise Bertin Louise-Angélique Bertin (15 January 1805 – 26 April 1877) was a French composer and poet.Hugh Macdonald, "Bertin, Louise", in: ''Grove Music Online'Oxford Music Online(subscription required) (accessed 30 December 2010). Life and music Louise ...

(1805–1877) *

(1805–1847) * Elizabeth Masson (1806–1865) * Adelaide Orsola Appignani (1807–1884) * Helen Blackwood (1807–1867) * Emma Hartmann (1807–1851) *

H. Servier Jeanne Louise Hillemacher Servier (1807-1858) was a French composer who published most of her work under the name Mme. H. Servier. Her best known work was ''Methode Elementaire et Progressive de Chant a l’Usage de Toutes les Voix''. Servier was ...

(1807–1858) *

Princess Cecilia of Sweden (1807–1844) Cecilia of Sweden (22 June 1807 in Stockholm – 27 January 1844 in Oldenburg) was a composer, a Swedish princess by birth, and Grand Duchess of Oldenburg by marriage. She was the daughter of King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden and Frederic ...

* Caroline Wiseneder (1807–1868) *

Maria Malibran Maria Felicia Malibran (24 March 1808 – 23 September 1836) was a Spanish singer who commonly sang both contralto and soprano parts, and was one of the best-known opera singers of the 19th century. Malibran was known for her stormy personality ...

(1808–1836) *

Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton, Lady Stirling-Maxwell (22 March 1808 – 15 June 1877) was an active English social reformer and author.Perkin, pp. 26–28. She left her husband in 1836, who sued her close friend Lord Melbourne, then the Whig ...

(1808–1877) *

Anna Caroline Oury Anna Caroline Oury (''née'' De Belleville), also known as Ninette de Belleville, Ninette von Belleville or Ninette de Belleville-Oury (24 January 1806 – 22 July 1880), was a German pianist and composer of French ancestry. Life and career Ann ...

(1808–1880) *

Leopoldine Blahetka Marie Leopoldine Blahetka (16 November 1809 – 17 January 1885) was an Austrian pianist and composer. Life Leopoldine Blahetka was born in Guntramsdorf near Vienna, the child of George and Barbara Joseph Blahetka Sophia, née Traeg. Her fath ...

(1809–1885) * Hanna Brooman (1809–1887) * Baronne Almaury de Maistre (1809–1875) *

Johanna Kinkel Johanna Kinkel (8 July 1810 – 15 November 1858), born Maria Johanna Mockel, was a German composer, writer, pedagogue, and revolutionary. Biography Kinkel was born in Bonn to Catholic parents Marianna and Peter Joseph Mockel, a school teacher a ...

(1810–1858) * Louise Geneviève de Le Hye (1810–1838) * Loïsa Puget (1810–1889) * Alicia Ann Scott (1810–1900) * Josefa Somellera (1810–1885) * Carolina Uccelli (1810–1885) * Ann Mounsey (1811–1891) *

Emilie Mayer Emilie Luise Friderica Mayer (14 May 1812,Sources variously give Mayer's date of birth as 1812 (as in the references and external links below) or 1821 (e.g. Grove). It is possible that a transcription error was made by an early writer or typeset ...

(1812–1883) * Amalia Redec (1812–1885) * Sophie Seipt (1812–1889) *

Julie von Webenau Julie von Webenau (16 October, 1813 – 2 July, 1887) was a German-Austrian composer. Life Julie was a daughter of the government council member Ludwig Cajetan Baroni-Cavalcabò (1765-1847) and the amateur singer Josephine Baroni-Cavalcabò (1 ...

née Baroni-Cavalcabò (1813–1887) * Delphine von Schauroth (1814–1887) *

Thérèse Wartel Atala Thérèse Annette Wartel, née Adrien (2 July 1814 – 6 November 1865), was a French pianist, music educator, composer and critic.Fétis F.-J.: ''Biographie universelle des musiciens'', vol. 2 (Paris, 1878). Biography Born in Paris, Thér ...

(1814–1865) * Fredrikke Egeberg (1815–1861) * Josephine Lang (1815–1880) *

Mary Anne à Beckett Mary Anne à Beckett (29 April 1815 – 11 December 1863) was an English composer, primarily known for opera. She was the wife of the writer Gilbert à Beckett, who provided the libretti for two of her operas. Their children included the writ ...

(1817–1863) *

Harriet Anne Smart Harriet Anne Smart Callow (October 20, 1817 - June 30, 1883) was a British artist and composer who is best remembered for her hymns and her paintings of the British countryside. Her works were published under the names Harriet Smart and H. A. Cal ...

(1817–1883) * Caroline Orger (1818–1892) * Caroline Reinagle (1818–1892) * Ellen Dickson (1819–1878) *

(1819–1896) *

Elizabeth Stirling Elizabeth Stirling a.k.a. Elizabeth Bridge (26 February 1819 – 25 March 1895) was an English organist and composer. Biography Elizabeth Stirling was born in Greenwich, London, and studied piano and organ at the Royal Academy of Music with Edw ...

(1819–1895) * Augusta Browne (1820–1882) * Felicita Casella (c. 1820–''after'' 1865) *

Emilie Hammarskjöld Emilie Augusta Kristina Hammarskjöld née Holmberg (May 6, 1821 – March 26, 1854) was a Swedish composer and musician. She was active as a concert singer, a pianist and a music instructor. She was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music ...

(1821–1854) * Clara Angela Macirone (1821–1895) *

Charlotte Sainton-Dolby Charlotte Helen Sainton-Dolby (17 May 182118 February 1885), was an English contralto, singing teacher and composer. Life Charlotte Helen Dolby was born in London to Samuel Dolby and Charlotte Niven. Her father died when she was 10 years old. S ...

(1821–1885) *

Maria Anna Stubenberg Maria Anna Stubenberg (August 9, 1821December 1, 1912) was a German composer who used Hungarian and gypsy folk tunes in her compositions. Biography Maria Anna Herrin und Gräfin von Buttlar-Stubenberg was born in Graz, Austria, to Gustav Adolf J ...

(1821–1912) *

Pauline Viardot Pauline Viardot (; 18 July 1821 – 18 May 1910) was a nineteenth-century French mezzo-soprano, pedagogue and composer of Spanish descent. Born Michelle Ferdinande Pauline García, her name appears in various forms. When it is not simply "Pauli ...

(1821–1910) * Betty Boije (1822–1854) * Faustina Hasse Hodges (1822–1895) * Hermine Rudersdorff (1822–1882) * Louise Strantz (1823–1909) * Maria Vespermann (1823–1882) * Emma Maria Macfarren (1824–1895) * Marie Siegling (1824–1919) * Jane Sloman (1824–''after'' 1850) *

Virginia Gabriel Mary Anne Virginia Gabriel (7 February 1825 – 7 August 1877) was an English singer and composer. She was also known as Mrs. George E. March. Life Virginia Gabriel was born in Banstead, Surrey, England, the daughter of Major-general "Archang ...

(1825–1877) *

Kate Loder Kate Fanny Loder, later Lady Thompson, (21 August 1825 – 30 August 1904) was an English composer and pianist. Biography Kate Loder was born on 21 August 1825, on Bathwick Street, Bathwick, within Bath, Somerset where the Loder family we ...

(1825–1904) *

Nina Stollewerk Nina Stollewerk Rosthorn (18 July 1825 - 26 January 1914) was an Austrian composer, conductor, and singer who was one of the most widely-reviewed female composers of her time, and one of the few 19th-century women to conduct an orchestra. Stollewe ...

(1825–1914) * Maria Lindsay (1827–1898) * Teresa Milanollo (1827–1904) * Julia Niewiarowska-Brzozowska (1827–1891) * Elizabeth Philp (1827–1885) * Clémence de Grandval (1828–1907) * Ellen R. Thompson (1928–2014) *

Charlotte Alington Barnard Charlotte Alington Pye Barnard (23 December 1830 in Louth, Lincolnshire – 30 January 1869 in Dover) was an English poet and composer of ballads and hymns, who often wrote under the pseudonym Claribel. She wrote over 100 songs as well as two vol ...

(1830–1869) * Charlotte Tardieu (1829–1890) * Aurore von Haxthausen (1830–1888) * Fanny Arthur Robinson (1831–1879) *

Martha von Sabinin Martha von Sabinin (30 May 1831 – 1892) was a Russians, Russian composer and pianist. Biography Marfa Stepanovna Sabinina was the daughter of the Russian archpriest in Weimar in Saxony. She studied music with Georg Schumann (composer), Ge ...

(1831–1892) * Julia Woolf (1831–1893) * Modesta Sanginés Uriarte (1832–1887) *

Mathilde Hannah von Rothschild Hannah Mathilde von Rothschild (5 March 1832 – 8 March 1924) was a German-Jewish baroness, composer and patron. Life and career Mathilde von Rothschild was born in Frankfurt, the second oldest daughter of Charlotte and Anselm von Rothschild, a ...

(1832–1924) * Sophia Dellaporta (fl. second half of the 19th century) * Clotilde Kainerstorfer (1833–1897) * Kate Lucy Ward (1833–1915) * Esmeralda Athanasiu-Gardeev (1834–1917) *

Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska (1829/1834 – 29 September 1861) was a Polish composer and pianist. She composed mainly for the piano and is internationally known for her composition '' A Maiden's Prayer''. Life and death Bądarzewska was born ...

(1834–1861) * Teckla Juel (1834–1904) * Anna Pessiak-Schmerling (1834–1896) *

Helen Tretbar Helen Dellenbaugh Tretbar (May 16, 1835 – April 3, 1902) was an American author, librettist, and translator who edited '' The Etude'' magazine in the late 1880s and was fluent in French, German, and Italian. Early life and education Tretbar was ...

(1835–1902) * Johanne Amelie Fenger (1836–1913) * Susan McFarland Parkhurst (1836–1918) * Anaïs Perrière-Pilte (1836–1878) * Constance Faunt Le Roy Runcie (1836–1911) *

Charlotte Sporleder Charlotte Wilhelmine Eringarde Freiin Spiegel von und zu Peckelsheim Sporleder (November 8, 1836 - January 9, 1915) was a German composer who won a medal at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. She published her music under the name Charlotte Sporlede ...

(1836–1915) * Pauline Thys (c.1836–1909) * Caroline Wichern (1836–1906) * Carlotta Ferrari (1837–1907) *

Bertha Tammelin ''Bertha'' Carolina Mathilda Tammelin, née ''Bock'' (Stockholm, 21 March 1836 – 2 January 1915) was a Swedish actress, operatic mezzo-soprano, pianist, composer and drama teacher.Österberg, Carin et al., ''Svenska kvinnor: föregångare, ny ...

(1836–1915) *

Georgina Weldon Georgina Weldon (née Thomas; 24 May 1837 – 11 January 1914) was a British litigant and amateur soprano of the Victorian era. Early years She was born at Tooting Lodge, Clapham Common in 1837, one of seven children and the oldest daughter bo ...

(1837–1914) * Harriet Maitland Young (1838–1923) * Liliʻuokalani (1838–1917) * Louise Haenel de Cronenthall (1839–c. 1876) * Lotten Edholm (1839–1930) * Laura Constance Netzel (1839–1927) *

Alice Mary Smith Alice Mary Smith (married name Alice Mary Meadows White; 19 May 1839 – 4 December 1884) was an English composer. Her compositions included two symphonies and a large collection of choral works, both sacred and secular. Biography Smith was bo ...

(1839–1884) * Ingeborg von Bronsart (1840–1913) *

Theodora Cormontan Theodora Cormontan (9 June 184026 October 1922) was a Norwegian American pianist, music publisher and composer, one of the first Norwegian women to have her classical compositions published and widely performed, and the first woman to start a mus ...

(1840–1922) *

Mary Helena Synge Mary Helena Synge (8 July 1840 – 5 February 1917) was an Irish composer, pianist, and singer who spent many years in England, where she died. Synge was born in Parsonstown to Margaret Jemima Saunders, Edward Synge, and a family of musicians an ...

(1840–1917) *

Elfrida Andrée Elfrida Andrée (19 February 1841 – 11 January 1929), was a Swedish organist, composer, and conductor. A 1996 recording on the Caprice label features Andrée's piano quintet, along with a piano sonata, the string quartet in D minor, and v ...

(1841–1929) * Clara H. Scott (1841–1897) * Louise Héritte-Viardot (1841–1918) *

Julie Waldburg-Wurzach Princess Julie Furstin von Waldburg-Wurzach (27 April 1841 – 7 December 1914) was an Austrian composer who published over 60 works for voice and/or piano. She was born in Vienna to Count Frans and Frantiska Dubsky von Trebomyslicz. In 1858, she ma ...

(1841–1914) * Josefina Brdlíková (1843–1910) * Florence Ashton Marshall (1843–1922) * Oliveria Louisa Prescott (1843–1919) * Manuela Antonia Márquez García-Saavedra (1844–1890) * Marguerite Olagnier (1844–1906) *

Clara Kathleen Rogers Clara Kathleen Barnett Rogers (January 14, 1844 – March 8, 1931), was an English-born American composer, singer, writer and music educator. Early life and education Rogers was born in Cheltenham, England, into a musical family. Her grandfath ...

(1844–1931) * Ika Peyron (1845–1922) * Giuseppina Vitali (1845–1915) *

Regina Watson Regina Cohn Watson (April 23, 1845 - July 31, 1913) was a composer, pianist, and teacher who was born in Germany. Her family later moved to America, first to Detroit, then to Chicago, where Regina lived for the rest of her life. In 1873, she marri ...

(1845–1913) * Ella Adayevskaya (née Schultz) (1846–1926) *

Marie Jaëll Marie Jaëll (née Trautmann) (17 August 1846 – 4 February 1925) was a French pianist, composer, and pedagogue. Marie Jaëll composed pieces for piano, concertos, quartets, and others, She dedicated her cello concerto to Jules Delsart, and was ...

(1846–1925) *

Sophie Menter Sophie Menter (29 July 1846 – 23 February 1918) was a German pianist and composer who became the favorite female student of Franz Liszt.Schonberg, 262. She was called ''l'incarnation de Liszt'' in Paris because of her robust, electrifying playing ...

(1846–1918) *

Valentina Serova Valentina Vasilyevna Serova (russian: Валенти́на Васи́льевна Серо́ва; 23 December 1917 – 12 December 1975) was a Soviet film and theatre actress born in Ukraine. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1946). Winner of the ...

(1846–1924) *

Agnes Tyrrell Agnes Tyrrell (20 September 1846 – 18 April 1883) was a composer and pianist of English and Czech descent. Life Agnes Tyrrell was born in Brno, the regional capital of Moravia in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. She was the daughter of English te ...

(1846–1883) * Antonietta Gambara Untersteiner (1846–1896) *

Eliza Mazzucato Young Eliza Mazzucato Young (July 7, 1846 – March 27, 1937) was an Italian-born American composer, musician, and educator. She wrote ''Mr. Sampson of Omaha'' (1888), one of the first operas by a woman to be produced in the United States. Early life ...

(1846–1937) *

Eloísa D'Herbil Eloisa D'Herbil (also Eloisa D'Herbil de Silva, 27 December 1847 – 22 June 1943) was a Spanish pianist and composer. A child prodigy on the piano, by age seven, she had played before the heads of state in England and Spain. As a child, the pres ...

(1847–1943) *

Agathe Backer Grøndahl Agathe Ursula Backer Grøndahl (1 December 1847 – 4 June 1907) was a Norwegian pianist and composer. Her son Fridtjof Backer-Grøndahl (1885–1959) was also a pianist and composer, who promoted his mother's compositions in his concerts. Biogr ...

(1847–1907) *

Chiquinha Gonzaga Francisca Edwiges Neves Gonzaga, better known as Chiquinha Gonzaga (; October 17, 1847 – February 28, 1935) was a Brazilian composer, pianist and the first woman conductor in Brazil. Chiquinha Gonzaga was the first pianist of "choro" and ...

(1847–1935) *

Augusta Holmès Augusta Mary Anne Holmès (16 December 1847 – 28 January 1903) was a French composer of Irish descent (her father was from Youghal, Co. Cork). In 1871, Holmès became a French citizen and added the accent to her last name.Rollo Myers: "Augusta ...

(1847–1903) *

Agnes Zimmermann Agnes Zimmermann (5 July 184714 November 1925) was a German concert pianist and composer who lived in England. Biography Agnes Marie Jacobina Zimmermann was born in Cologne, Germany. Her family moved to England, and she was enrolled at the Royal ...

(1847–1925) * Josephine Amann-Weinlich (1848–1887) *

Nadezhda Rimskaya-Korsakova Nadezhda Nikolayevna Rimskaya-Korsakova (russian: Надежда Николаевна Римская-Корсакова née Purgold (October 19 (N.S. October 31), 1848May 24, 1919) was a Russian pianist and composer as well as the wife of compos ...

(1848–1919) * Teresa Seneke (1848–1875) * Frances Allitsen (1849–1912) * Soledad Bengoecha de Cármena (1849–1893) * Catalina Berroa (1849–1911) * Roberta Geddes-Harvey (1849–1930) * Ludmila Jeske-Choińska-Mikorska (1849–1898) * Nanna Magdalene Liebmann (1849–1935) *

Felicia Tuczek Felicia Johanna Tuczek (September 1849 – 7 January 1905) was a composer and pianist who is best remembered today for her ''String Quartet in f minor''. Her birthplace is variously given as the Czech Republic, Berlin, or Vienna; as an adult, she l ...

(1849–1905) *

Pauline Volkstein Pauline Volkstein (19 January 1849 – 6 May 1925) was a German composer of over 1,000 songs. Volkstein was born in Quedlinburg. She had little formal music training, but came from a musical family. Her mother had studied counterpoint with Fried ...

(1849–1925) * Stephanie Wurmbrand-Stuppach (1849–1919) * Luise Adolpha Le Beau (1850–1927) * Carrie Burpee Shaw (1850–1946) * Kate Simmons (1850–1926) * Emma Roberto Steiner (1850–1928)

1851–1875

* Maria Wilhelmj (185?–1930) * Mary Grant Carmichael (1851–1935) * Gabrielle Ferrari (1851–1921) * Annie Fortescue Harrison (1851–1944) *

Kate Vanderpoel Cornelia Townsend (born 11 August 1851) was an American song composer who published most of her music under the name Kate Vanderpoel. Biography Townsend was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Horace Gilbert and Eliza Ann Thornton Townsend, one of nine ...

(born 1851) * Helena Munktell (1852–1919) * Marie Townsend (1851–1912) * Antha Minerva Virgil (c. 1852–1939) *

Amanda Röntgen-Maier Amanda Röntgen-Maier (20 February 1853 – 15 July 1894) was a Swedish violinist and composer. She was the first female graduate in music direction from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm in 1872. Biography Amanda Maier was born into a ...

(1853–1894) *

Teresa Carreño María Teresa Gertrudis de Jesús Carreño García (December 22, 1853June 12, 1917) was a Venezuelan pianist, soprano, composer, and conductor. Over the course of her 54-year concert career, she became an internationally renowned virtuoso piani ...

(1853–1917) * Susan Trew (born 1853) * Josephine Troup (1853–1912) *

Mary Augusta Wakefield Mary Augusta Wakefield (19 August 1853 – 16 September 1910) was a British composer, contralto, festival organiser, and writer. Biography Early life Wakefield was born in Kendal, where her paternal ancestors had been members of the Quaker ...

(1853–1910) * Julie Rivé-King (1854–1937) * Hendrika van Tussenbroek (1854–1935) *

Nellie Bangs Skelton Cornelia (“Nellie”) Pomeroy Bangs Skelton DePue (August 8, 1855 - November 23, 1911) was an American composer, pianist, singer and vocal coach who toured the United States as a pianist. She published and performed as Nellie Bangs Skelton. Skelt ...

(1855–1911) *

Maude Valérie White Maude Valérie White (1855 – 1937) was a French-born English composer who became one of the most successful songwriters (in the English serious style) of the Victorian period. Early years Although born near Dieppe in Normandy to upper middl ...

(1855–1937) *

Cecilia Arizti Cecilia Arizti Sobrino (28 October 1856 – 30 June 1930) was a Cuban composer, pianist and music educator. Biography Cecilia Arizti was born in La Loma del Angel, Havana, the daughter of pianist Fernando Arizti and his wife Teresa Sobrino. Ari ...

(1856–1930) *

Eva Dell'Acqua Eva Dell'Acqua (28 January 185612 February 1930) was a Belgian singer and composer of Italian ancestry. Biography Eva Dell'Acqua was born in 1856 in Schaerbeek, Brussels, Belgium, the daughter of the Italian painter Cesare Dell'Acqua and his wife ...

(1856–1930) * Kateřina Emingerová (1856–1934) *

Helen Hopekirk Helen Hopekirk (20 May 1856 – 19 November 1945) was a Scottish pianist and composer who lived and worked in Boston. Life and career Helen Hopekirk was born in Portobello, Edinburgh in Scotland, a daughter of music shop owners Adam and Hele ...

(1856–1945) * Natalia Janotha (1856–1932) * Gilda Ruta (1856–1932) * Mary Elizabeth Turner Salter (1856–1938) * Fannie Lovering Skinner (1856–1938) * Berta Bock (1857–1945) *

Cécile Chaminade Cécile Louise Stéphanie Chaminade (8 August 1857 – 13 April 1944) was a French composer and pianist. In 1913, she was awarded the Légion d'Honneur, a first for a female composer. Ambroise Thomas said, "This is not a woman who composes, but a ...

(1857–1944) * Rosalind Frances Ellicott (1857–1924) * Ethel R. Harraden (1857–1917) * Mathilde Kralik von Mayerswalden (1857–1944) * Mary Knight Wood (1857–1944) * Emma Wooge (1857–1935) * Emma Mundella (1858–1896) * Carrie B. Wilson Adams (1858–1940) *

Mélanie Bonis Mélanie Hélène Bonis, known as Mel Bonis (21 January 1858 – 18 March 1937), was a prolific French late-Romantic composer. She wrote more than 300 pieces, including works for piano solo and four hands, organ pieces, chamber music, ''mélodies' ...

(1858–1937) *

Catharina van Rennes Catharina van Rennes (2 August 1858, Utrecht – 23 September 1940, Amsterdam) was a Dutch music educator, soprano singer and composer. Van Rennes was the daughter of Jan van Rennes and Marianna Josepha de Jong. Among her tutors were Richard H ...

(1858–1940) *

Guy d'Hardelot Guy d'Hardelot (August 1858 – 7 January 1936) was the pen name of Helen Rhodes (''née'' Helen Guy), a French composer, pianist, and teacher. Biography D'Hardelot was born Helen Guy, to an English father and a French mother. She was born a ...

(1858–1936) * Hilda Sehested (1858–1936) *

(1858–1944) * Stella Stocker (1858–1925) *

Lydia Kunz Venth Lydia Kunz Venth (1858 – 23 May 1931) was an American composer and pianist. Venth was born in Pennsylvania to John Jacob and Henrietta Schlatter Kunz. She was a largely self-taught pianist and composer who married violinist Carl Venth when she ...

(1858–1931) *

Adelheid Wette Adelheid Catharina Maria Humperdinck Wette (4 September 1858 – 9 August 1916) was a German author, composer, and folklorist who is best remembered today as the librettist of her brother Engelbert Humperdinck's opera ''Hansel and Gretel''. Life ...

(1858–1916) *

Sophie Wolff-Fritz Sophie Wolff-Fritz (15 July 1858 – 1938) was a German composer, singer and teacher. She was born in Vohl and studied singing in Darmstadt under Luise Muller, and later under Femy Schnyder. Woff-Fritz taught in a nursery school and at the Ki ...

(1858–1938) * Hedwige Chrétien (1859–1944) * Laura Sedgwick Collins (1859–1927) *

Narcisa Freixas Narcisa Freixas i Cruells (13 December 1859 – 20 December 1926) was a Catalan sculptor, painter and composer. She was born in Sabadell Sabadell () is a city in Catalonia, Spain. It is in the south of the ''comarca'' of Vallès Occidental a ...

(1859–1926) *

Vincenza Garelli della Morea Vincenza Garelli della Morea née Valeggio (Countess de Cardenas; 1859 - after 1924) was an Italian pianist and composer. She also used the pseudonym Centa della Morea. Biography Vincenza Garelli della Morea was born in Valeggio, in the provi ...

(1859–''after'' 1924) *

Susie Frances Harrison Susie Frances Harrison née Riley (February 24, 1859 – May 5, 1935) (a.k.a. Seranus) was a Canadian poet, novelist, music critic and music composer who lived and worked in Ottawa and Toronto. Life Susie Frances Riley was born in Toronto of Ir ...

(1859–1935) * Elisabeth Meyer (1859–1927) * Ida Georgina Moberg (1859–1947) * Margit Sztaray (1859–?) * Teresa Tanco Cordovez de Herrera (1859–1946) *

Bertha Tapper Bertha Johanne Feiring Maass Tapper (25 January 1859 - 2 September 1915) was a Norwegian composer, pianist, and teacher, best known for editing the piano works of Edvard Grieg for publication in America. She published under the name Bertha Feirin ...

(1859–1915) *

Hope Temple Hope Temple, born as Alice Maude Davis (27 December 1859 – 10 May 1938) was an Irish songwriter and composer. She was also known as Mrs André Messager. Life Alice Davis was born in Dublin, Ireland, and was known professionally as Hope Temp ...

(1859–1938) *

Agnes Tschetschulin Agnes Tschetschulin (24 February 1859 – 23 April 1942) was a Finnish composer and violinist who toured internationally. Tschetschulin was born in Helsinki to Feodor and Hilda Eckstein Tschetschulin. She had three sisters: Maria, Melanie, and E ...

(1859–1942) * Ellen Wright (1859–1904) * Laura Valborg Aulin (1860–1928) * Alicia Van Buren (1860–1922) * Celeste de Longpré Heckscher (1860–1928) * Halina Krzyżanowska (1860–1937) *

Ella May Dunning Smith Ella May Dunning Smith (also known as Ella Mae Dunning Smith) (March 12, 1860 - September 28, 1934) was an American author, composer, pianist, and activist who was active in the settlement movement and served as the first female president of the O ...

(1860–1934) *

Isabel Stewart North Isabel Stewart North (June 20, 1860 – March 6, 1929) was an American song composer, music educator, and publisher. North was born in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, to Lucy R. Royer and J. Sewell Stewart. She studied music at the Burlingame Seminary ...

(1860–1929) * Hilda Wilson (1860–1918) *

Amy Woodforde-Finden Amy Woodforde-Finden (1860 – 13 March 1919) was a composer who is best known for writing the music to "Kashmiri Song" from ''Four Indian Love Lyrics'' by Laurence Hope. Biography Amy Woodforde-Finden was born Amelia Rowe Ward in 1860 at Valpar ...

(1860–1919) * Mary J. A. Wurm (1860–1938) * Florence Everilda Goodeve (1861–1915) * Erika Stang (1861–1898) *

Anna Teichmüller Anna Teichmüller (11 May 1861 – 6 September 1940) was a German composer and teacher who set the works of many poets, especially Carl Hauptmann, to music. She composed most of her works at the Schreiberhau artist colony. Teichmüller was born i ...

(1861–1940) * Florence Aylward (1862–1950) * Carrie Bond (1862–1946) *

Dora Bright Dora Estella Knatchbull (née Bright; 16 August 1862 – 16 November 1951) was an English composer and pianist. She composed works for orchestra, keyboard and voice, and music for opera and ballet, including ballets for performance by the dance ...

(1862–1951) * Liza Lehmann (1862–1918) *

Adela Maddison Katharine Mary Adela Maddison, née Tindal (15 December 1862 – 12 June 1929), usually known as Adela Maddison, was a British composer of operas, ballets, instrumental music and songs. She was also a concert producer. She composed a number of ...

(1862–1929) * Mona McBurney (1862–1932) * Edith Swepstone (1862–1930) * Marian Arkwright (1863–1922) * Luisa Casagemas (1863–''after'' 1894) * Maria Chefaliady-Taban (1863–1932) * Abbie Gerrish-Jones (1863–1929) * Helen Francis Hood (1863–1949) * Izabella Kuliffay (1863–1945) *

Alicia Adélaide Needham Alicia Adélaide Needham (née Montgomery; 31 October 1863 – 24 December 1945) was an Irish composer of songs and ballads. A committed Suffragette, she was the first woman to conduct at the Royal Albert Hall, London, and the first female pres ...

(1863–1945) * Cornélie van Oosterzee (1863–1943) *

Caroline Holme Walker Caroline Holme Walker (June 14, 1863 – January 19, 1955) was an American composer, pianist, and teacher who transcribed bird songs into standard musical notation. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri. Walker studied with Anna Strothotte, James Nor ...

(1863–1955) *

Elisabeth Wintzer Elisabeth Wintzer (16 June 1863 – 12 June 1933) was a German composer and writer. Life Wintzer born in Bad Suderode, Germany. She studied music with Carl Reinecke and Salomon Jadassohn in Leipzig, and married the artist Otto Gerlach. Wintzer ...

(1863–1933) *

Florence Maude Ewart Florence Maude Ewart (16 November 1864c.8 November 1949) was an English violinist, music educator and composer who lived and worked in Australia. Biography Florence Donaldson was born in Kentish Town, London, the daughter of accountant Frederic ...

(1864–1949) * Eleanor Everest Freer (1864–1942) *

Alice Tegnér Alice Charlotta Tegnér (; 12 March 1864 – 26 May 1943; Sandström) was a Swedish music teacher, poet and composer. She is the foremost composer of Swedish children's songs during the late 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. ...

(1864–1943) * Borghild Holmsen (1865–1938) * Lillian Tait Sheldon (1865–1925) *

Fannie Morris Spencer Fannie Morris Spencer (August 15, 1865 - April 9, 1943) was an American composer and organist who wrote a collection of 32 hymns and was a founding member of the American Guild of Organists. Spencer was born in Newburgh, New York, to Cynthia McCo ...

(1865–1943) *

Amanda Ira Aldridge Amanda Christina Elizabeth Aldridge, also known as Amanda Ira Aldridge (10 March 1866 – 9 March 1956), was a British opera singer and teacher who composed love songs, suites, sambas, and light orchestral pieces under the pseudonym of Montag ...

(1866–1956) * Henriette van den Boorn-Coclet (1866–1945) * Clara Anna Korn (1866–1941) * Laura Lemon (1866–1924) * Alice Sauvrezis (1866–1946) * Tekla Griebel Wandall (1866–1940) *

Mary Louisa White Mary Louisa White (2 September 1866 – January 1935) was a British composer, pianist, and educator who invented a Letterless Method of musical notation. Her parents were Robert and Louisa Makin White. Mary Louisa, known to her family as "Louie," w ...

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(1867–1944) * Margherita Galeotti (1867–''after'' 1912) * Amy Elsie Horrocks (1867–''after'' 1915) * Margaret Ruthven Lang (1867–1972) * Alexandra Thomson (1867–1907) * Gisella Delle Grazie (born 1868, fl. 1894–95) * Signe Lund (1868–1950) * Annie Patterson (1868–1934) * Anna Diller Starbuck (1868–1929) *

Joséphine Boulay Joséphine Pauline Boulay (22 May 1869 – 5 August 1925) was a French organist, composer and professor. Career Born in Paris, she became blind at age three. She began her studies with the Blind Sisters of St. Paul and then with the National Inst ...

(1869–1925) * Virginia Mariani Campolieti (1869–1941) * Maria Antonietta Picconi (1869–1926) *

Caro Roma Caro Roma (1866–1937) was the stage name of Carrie Northey, an American singer and composer known for Tin Pan Alley era songs. Biography Carrie Northey (Northly has been cited, but Federal Census records and her obituary and death record insi ...

(1869–1937) * Patty Stair (1869–1926) *

Else Streit Else Streit (born 27 July 1869) was a German composer, pianist, teacher, and violinist. Streit was born in Lauenburg, Pomerania, on the border of Poland and Germany. She studied music at the Karlsruhe Conservatory and the Stern Conservatory. Her ...

(1869–?) * Therese Wittman (1869–1942) * Grace Chadbourne (1870–1919) *

Eugénie-Emilie Juliette Folville Eugénie-Emilie Juliette Folville (5 January 1870 – 28 October 1946) was a Belgian pianist, violinist, music educator, conductor and composer. Life Eugénie-Emilie Juliette Folville was born in Liège, Belgium, and began the study of mus ...

(1870–1946) * Mon Schjelderup (1870–1934) *

Pauline B. Story Pauline Brutting Story (September 1870 - June 10, 1952) was an American composer and publisher who wrote ragtime pieces for piano and patriotic songs during World War I, including one based on a text by Helen Keller. Biography Story was born in ...

(1870–1952) * Pamela Motley Verrall (1870–1948) *

Lola Carrier Worrell Lola Carrier Worrell (1 July 1870 – 29 January 1929) was an American composer who wrote instrumental music, songs, and at least one piece for musical theatre. Born in St. Johns, Michigan, she studied music with Carlos Sobimo, Francis Hendricks and ...

(1870–1929) * Hélène-Frédérique de Faye-Jozin (1871–1942) (name often abbreviated as Fréd. de Faye-Jozin) * Nellie von Gerichten Smith (1871–1952) *

Anita Socola Specht Anita Socola Specht (June 1871 - November 11, 1958) was an American composer, pianist, and singer who was president of the Louisiana State Federation of Music Clubs and helped found the New Orleans Symphony Orchestra. Specht was born in Louisian ...

(1871–1958) * Florence Turner-Maley (1871–1962) * Jane Vieu (1871–1955) *

Bessie Marshall Whitely Bessie Marshall Whitely or Whiteley (December 25, 1871 - November 7, 1944) was an American composer, pianist, and teacher. She attended the Oakland Conservatory of Music in Oakland, California, and studied with H. G. Pasmore, J. P. Morgan, and Loui ...

(1871–1944) * Louise Tunison (1872–1899) *

Leokadiya Kashperova Leokadiya Aleksandrovna Kashperova (russian: Леокадия Александровна Кашперова; 16 May 1872 – 3 December 1940) was a Russian pianist and Romantic composer. She was the piano teacher of composer Igor Stravinsky. Lif ...

(1872–1940) *

Clara Mathilda Faisst Clara Mathilda Faisst (22 June 1872 – 22 November 1948) was a German pianist, composer and writer. Early life Clara Faisst was born in Karlsruhe, Baden to August and Emma Faisst. Her father died when she was one year old. She was the youngest o ...

(1872–1948) *

Mabel Madison Watson Mabel Madison Watson (December 16, 1872 – September 12, 1952) was an American composer who taught piano and violin students. She was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, to James Madison Watson and Emma Hopper Watson. Her father wrote several school tex ...

(1872–1952) * Annette Thoma (1872–1959) * Eliza Woods (1872–1961) * María de las Mercedes Adam de Aróstegui (1873–1957) * Elise Fellows White (1873–1953) *

Ethel Barns Ethel Barns (5 December 1873 – 31 December 1948) was an English violinist, pianist and composer. She was born in London and entered the Royal Academy of Music at as a teenager, where she studied with Emile Sauret for violin, Ebenezer Prout for ...

(1874–1948) * Frances Tarbox (1874–1959) * Josephine Trott (1874–1950) * Anna Cramer (1873–1968) * Celeste Jaguaribe de Matos Celeste (1873–1938) *

Emma Lomax Louise Emily (Emma) Lomax (22 June 1873 – 29 August 1963) was an English composer and pianist. She was born in Brighton, daughter of the curator of Brighton Free Library and Museum, and studied at the Brighton School of Music and the Royal Acad ...

(1873–1963) * Mary Carr Moore (1873–1957) * Anice Potter Terhune (1873–1964) *

Maude Nugent Maude Nugent (January 12, 1873 or 1874 – June 3, 1958) was an American singer and composer. Biography Maude Nugent was born in Brooklyn, New York. She became a vaudeville singer, singing at venues like The Abbey and Tony Pastor's. In 1896, sh ...

(1873/4–1958) * Katharine Emily Eggar (1874–1961) * Lena Stein-Schneider (1874–1958) * Elsa Swartz (1874–1948) * Bertha Frensel Wegener (1874–1953) * Rosalie Balmer Smith Cale (1875–1958) * Katharine Lucke (1875–1962) *

Adele Bloesch-Stöcker Adele Bloesch-Stöcker (12 June 1875 – 10 September 1978) was a Swiss-German violinist and composer. She was born in Gummersbach, Germany, and was associated with Fritz Brun and Othmar Schoeck. She performed in Cologne, Berlin, Leipzig and Ber ...

(1875–1978) * Irène Fuerison (1875–1931) * Henriette Renié (1875–1956) * Satella Waterstone (1875–1938) * Vilma von Webenau (1875–1953) * Sara Wennerberg-Reuter (1875–1959)

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Portrait of Nora Holt by Carl Van Vechten

* Lucia Contini Anselmi (1876–''after'' 1913) * Madelene Van Aardt (1896–1982) *

Hélène Fleury-Roy Hélène-Gabrielle Fleury-Roy (21 June 1876 – 18 April 1957) was a French composer and the first woman to gain a prize at the prestigious Prix de Rome for composition. Background Fleury was born in Carlepont, Department Oise, France. She studi ...

(1876–1957) *

Armande de Polignac Armande de Polignac, comtesse de Chabannes-La Palice (Marie Armande Mathilde; 8 January 1876 – 29 April 1962) was a French composer, the niece of Prince Edmond de Polignac and Princess Winnaretta de Polignac, the patron of Ravel, Stravinsky an ...

(1876–1962) * Teresa Clotilde del Riego (1876–1968) *

Jean E. Williams Jean Elizabeth Williams (January 20, 1876 – July 1965) is a composer who was born in Wednesbury, England, and moved to Toronto, Canada. After graduating from the Royal Conservatory of Music of the University of Toronto, she returned to England a ...

(1876–1965) * Addie Anderson Wilson (1876–1966) *

Elsa Laura Wolzogen Elsa Laura Seemann von Mangern von Wolzogen (5 August 1876 – 25 April 1945) was a German composer, lute player, and singer. She was born and grew up in Dresden, where her family owned a guesthouse which entertained well-known artists and scholars ...

(1876–1945) *

Mabel Wheeler Daniels Mabel Wheeler Daniels (November 27, 1878 in Swampscott, Massachusetts – March 10, 1971 in Boston) was an American composer, conductor, and teacher. She attended Radcliffe College and studied with George Whitefield Chadwick before traveli ...

(1877–1971) * Elisabeth Kuyper (1877–1953) * Anna Schytte (1877–1953) * Anna Suszczynska (1877–1931) *

Jeanne Beijerman-Walraven Jeanne Beijerman-Walraven (14 June 1878 – 20 September 1969) was a Dutch composer. She was born in Semarang, Indonesia, and studied privately with Frits Koeberg in The Hague. Beijerman-Walraven's early compositions were late Romantic in sty ...

(1878–1969) * Eugenia Calosso (1878–1914) * Johanna Müller-Hermann (1878–1941) * Hope Squire (1878–1936) *

Yuliya Veysberg Yuliya Lazarevna Veysberg (Yuliya Rimskaya-Korsakova) (Julia Weissberg) (b. , d. March 1, 1942) was a music critic and composer. Life and career Yuliya Veysberg was born in Orenburg, Russian Empire. She studied at the Women's University, and in 1 ...

(1878/1880–1942) *

Wanda Landowska Wanda Aleksandra Landowska (5 July 1879 – 16 August 1959) was a Polish harpsichordist and pianist whose performances, teaching, writings and especially her many recordings played a large role in reviving the popularity of the harpsichord in ...

(1879–1959) *

Magdeleine Boucherit Le Faure Madeleine Thérèse Marie Boucherit (13 May 1879 – 14 October 1960) was a French pianist and composer. A teacher at the Conservatoire de Paris, she authored several pieces for piano, specifically for children, gave conducting lessons to young ...

(1879–1960) *

Carmela Mackenna Carmela Mackenna Subercaseaux (1879–1962) was a Chilean pianist and composer. Born in Santiago, to Alberto Mackenna Astorga and Carmela Subercaseaux, she was the great-granddaughter of Chilean hero Juan Mackenna and aunt of composer Alfonso Len ...

(1879–1962) *

Alma Mahler Alma Maria Mahler Gropius Werfel (born Alma Margaretha Maria Schindler; 31 August 1879 – 11 December 1964) was an Austrian composer, author, editor, and socialite. At 15, she was mentored by Max Burckhard. Musically active from her early yea ...

(1879–1964) *

Poldowski Poldowski was the professional pseudonym of a Belgian-born British composer and pianist born Régine Wieniawski (16 May 187928 January 1932), daughter of the Polish violinist and composer Henryk Wieniawski. Some of her early works were published ...

(1879–1932) * Johanna Senfter (1879–1961) * Louise Siddall (1879–1935) * Nannie Louise Wright (1879–1958) * Ethel Scarborough (1880–1956) * Elena Stanekaite-Laumyanskene (1880–1960) * Geertruida van Vladeracken (1880–1947) *

Florence Wickham Florence Pauline Wickham Lueder (1880October 20, 1962) was an American contralto who made an international career at major opera houses such as the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. After retiring from the stage, she composed several ballets a ...

(1880–1962) * Gena Branscombe (1881–1977) * Reine Colaço Osorio-Swaab (1881–1971) *

Nancy Dalberg Nancy Dalberg (July 6, 1881 – September 28, 1949) was a Danish composer. Dalberg grew up on the Danish island of Funen (Fyn) where she learned to play the piano. Her father, a well-off industrialist, refused her wish to study at the Royal Co ...

(1881–1949) * Fannie Charles Dillon (1881–1974) *

Cecile Paul Simon Cecile Paul Simon (April 12, 1881 - January 3, 1970) was a French composer who published under at least two pseudonyms and was the mother of composer Louise Marie Simon (also known as Claude Arrieu). Simon was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine. Little is ...

(1881–1970) *

Marion Bauer Marion Eugénie Bauer (15 August 1882 – 9 August 1955) was an American composer, teacher, writer, and music critic. She played an active role in shaping American musical identity in the early half of the twentieth century. As a composer, ...

(1882–1955) *

Mary Howe Mary Howe (April 4, 1882 – September 14, 1964) was an American composer and pianist. Biography She was born Mary Carlisle in Richmond, Virginia, at the home of her maternal grandparents, and would live most of her life in the Washington, D.C ...

(1882–1964) *

Verdi Karns Verdi Karns (April 30, 1882 – April 5, 1925), after 1908 Verdi Karns Sturgis'','' was an American composer of popular tunes. Early life Verdi Karns was born in Bluffton, Indiana, the daughter of Lewis Henry Karns and Olive Covert Karns. She w ...

(1882–1925) *

Ernestina Lecuona y Casado Ernestina Lecuona y Casado (16 January 1882 – 3 September 1951) was a Cuban pianist, music educator and composer. Life Ernestina Lecuona y Casado was born in Matanzas into a musical family. Her brother was pianist and composer Ernesto Lecuona ...

(1882–1951) *

Mary Lucas Mary Lucas (born Mary Anderson Juler, 24 May 1882–14 January 1952), sometimes referred to as Mary Anderson Lucas, was an English composer and pianist. Biography Her father was a doctor, and she was one of five children, growing up in London ...

(1882–1952) * Adaline Shepherd (1883–1950) * Eva Ruth Spalding (1883–1969) *

Dina Appeldoorn Christina Adriana Arendina (Dina) Koudijs-Appeldoorn (26 December 1884 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands – 4 December 1938 in The Hague) was a Dutch composer and pianist whose works, such as her two symphonic poems ''Noordzee-symfonie'' and ''Volkfe ...

(1884–1938) *

Marguerite Béclard d'Harcourt Marguerite Béclard d'Harcourt (24 February 1884 – 2 August 1964) was a French composer and ethno-musicologist. She was born in Paris and studied composition at the Schola Cantorum with Abel Decaux, Vincent d'Indy and Maurice Emmanuel. She ...

(1884–1964) *

May Brahe Mary Hannah (May) Brahe (née Dickson) (6 November 188414 August 1956) was an Australian composer, best known for her songs and ballads. Her most famous song by far is " Bless This House", recorded by John McCormack, Beniamino Gigli, Lesley Garre ...

(1884–1956) * Nora Holt (1884–1974) *

Giulia Recli Giulia Recli (1890 – 19 December 1970) was an Italian composer and essayist. Born in Milan, Recli was a student under Ildebrando Pizzetti and Victor de Sabata, learning piano, composition and singing. She was awarded first and second prizes a ...

(1884–1970) * Gisela Selden-Goth (1884–1975) *

Blanche Selva Marie Blanche Selva (Catalan ''Blanca Selva i Henry'', 29 January 18843 December 1942) was a French people, French pianist, music educator, writer and composer of Spanish people, Spanish origin. Biography Blanche Selva was born in Brive-la-Gaill ...

(1884–1942) * Maria Elizabeth van Ebbenhorst Tengbergen (1885–1980) *

María Grever María Grever (14 September 1885 – 15 December 1951) was the first female Mexican composer to achieve international acclaim.Rodríguez, Lee M. L. María Grever: Poeta Y Compositora. Potomac, Md: Scripta Humanistica, 1994. Print. She is best k ...

(1885–1951) *

Eva Jessye Eva Jessye (January 20, 1895 – February 21, 1992) was an American conductor who was the first black woman to receive international distinction as a professional choral conductor. She is notable as a choral conductor during the Harlem Renaissan ...

(1885–1992) * Mana Zucca (1885–1981) *

Dora Pejačević Countess Maria Theodora Paulina (Dora) Pejačević ( hu, Gróf verőczei Pejácsevich Mária Theodóra Paulina "Dóra", link=no, 10 September 1885 – 5 March 1923) was a Croatian composer and a member of the Pejačević noble family. She wa ...

(1885–1923) * Louise Cooper Spindle (1885–1968) *

J. Lilian Vandevere J. Lillian Vandevere (Jul 1885 – 10 May 1957) was an American author, composer, and music educator. She is best remembered today for her compositions for rhythm band and toy orchestra, and her work on the California State Series textbooks for mus ...

(1885–1957) * Edith Weiss-Mann (1885–1851) * Giovanna Bruna Baldacci (1886–''after'' 1910) *

Christabel Baxendale Christabel Baxendale (1886–after 1953?) was an English violinist and composer "of considerable talent." She was active in the early 1900s until at least 1921 and gave concerts in the London area, sometimes with her older sister, Kathleen Baxend ...

(1886–''after'' 1951) * Rebecca Helferich Clarke (1886–1979) * Ellen Coleman (1886–1973) * Elizabeth Gyring (1886–1970) * Ethel Leginska (1886–1970) *

Margaret McClure Stitt Margaret Lorna McClure Stitt (September 10, 1886 – December 10, 1979) was an American composer, lecturer, and playwright whose compositions were performed at the White House in 1936. Life and career Stitt was born in Rarden, Ohio. Her mother ...

(1886–1979) * Herma Studeny (1886–1973) * Annette Thoma (1886–1974) * Leonie Tonel (died 1886) *

Nadia Boulanger Juliette Nadia Boulanger (; 16 September 188722 October 1979) was a French music teacher and conductor. She taught many of the leading composers and musicians of the 20th century, and also performed occasionally as a pianist and organist. From a ...

(1887–1979) *

Mildred Couper Mildred Couper (December 10, 1887 in Buenos Aires, Argentina – August 9, 1974 in Santa Barbara, United States) was a prominent composer and pianist, and one of the first American musicians to experiment with quarter-tone music. She was b ...

(1887–1974) *

Clara Edwards Clara Edwards (originally Bertha Edwards, Bertha Johnson and then Clara Johnson) is a fictional character on the American television sitcom ''The Andy Griffith Show'' (1960 – 1968). Clara was portrayed by actress Hope Summers. Summers appe ...

(1887–1974) * Emilia Gubitosi (1887–1972) * Florence Beatrice Price (1887–1953) *

Margarete Schweikert Margarete Schweikert (16 February 1887 – 13 March 1957) was a German composer, music critic, violinist, and pianist who composed chamber music, approximately 160 songs, and a children's operetta, The Frog King. Biography Schweikert was bor ...

(1887–1957) *

Anne Stratton Anne Gannet Stratton Miller Holden (April 17, 1887 - October 1, 1977) was an American composer who is best remembered today for her song “Boats of Mine,” which was widely performed and recorded during her lifetime. She published her music under ...

(1887–1977) * Lily Strickland (1887–1958) *

Bertha Tideman-Wijers Albertha Wilhelmina Tideman-Wijers (8 January 1887 – 1 January 1976) was a Dutch composer who lived in Indonesia for almost two decades and incorporated Indonesian elements into her compositions. She published her music under the name Bertha Tide ...

(1887–1976) *

Bertha Weber Bertha Anna Weber (March 31, 1887 – April 17, 1961) was an American composer and organist. Life and career She was born in New Baden, Illinois, to John and Elizabeth Weber. The family moved to Pomona, California, in 1887. Weber studied music ...

(1887–1961) *

May Aufderheide May Frances Aufderheide Kaufman (May 21, 1888 – September 1, 1972) was an American composer of ragtime music. She was probably the best known among female ragtime composers. She received training in art music and visited Europe on a grand tour, ...

(1888–1972) * Carmen Barradas (1888–1963) * Johanna Beyer (1888–1944) *

Ilse Fromm-Michaels Ilse Fromm-Michaels (30 December 1888 – 22 January 1986) was a Germans, German pianist and composer. Life Ilse Fromm-Michaels was born in Hamburg and showed musical talent at an early age. She studied music in Berlin, first at the Hochschu ...

(1888–1986) * Anna Maria Klechniowska (1888–1973) * Julie Reisserová (1888–1938) * Maria Rodrigo (1888–1967) *

Elna Sherman Daisy Elna Sherman (12 October 1888 - September 1964) was a composer, musicologist, and teacher with a special interest in Thomas Hardy. Sherman was born in Massachusetts to Alice M. “Daisy” Fairchild and Sidney Algernon Sherman. Her mother Ali ...

(1888–1964) * Lyubov Streicher (1888–1958) * Jeanette Tillett (1888–1965) * Rosy Wertheim (1888–1949) * Gertrude Hoag Wilson (1888–1968) * Amy Aldrich Worth (1888–1967) * Emiliana de Zubeldia (1888–1987) * Ina Boyle (1889–1967) *

Ethel Glenn Hier Ethel Glenn Hier (25 June 1889 – 14 January 1971) was an American composer, teacher and pianist of Scottish ancestry. Life Ethel Glenn Hier was born in Madisonville, a neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. She studied at Ohio Wesleyan Univer ...

(1889–1971) *

Eleni Lambiri Eleni Lambiri ( el, Ελένη Λαμπίρη, 9 February 1889 – 30 March 1960) was a Greek conductor and composer. She is often regarded as the first female Greek composer. Life and career Eleni Lambiri was born in Athens, daughter of the co ...

(1889–1960) *

Elsa Stuart-Bergstrom Elsa Marianne Stuart-Bergstrom (26 April 1889 – 19 May 1970) was a Swedish author, composer,( and music critic who wrote several biographies, composed about 60 songs as well as orchestral works, and sometimes published under the pseudonyms Kaime ...

(1889–1970) * Celia Torrá (1889–1962) * Hanna Vollenhoven (1889–1972) *

Vally Weigl Vally Weigl (11 September 1894 – 25 December 1982) was an Austrian-American composer and music therapist. Biography Valerie Weigl (née Pick) was born in Vienna, Austria. She was the first daughter of a Jewish couple, lawyer Josef Pick (1849 ...

(1889–1982) *

Helen Searles Westbrook Helen Searles Westbrook (October 15, 1889 – 1967) was an American composer and organist who appeared with Chicago Symphony. Life Westbrook began organ lessons at age eleven with her mother, who was also an organist. Westbrook then studied wit ...

(1889–1967) *

E. Florence Whitlock Ellen Florence Williams Whitlock (10 November 1889 – 13 October 1978) was a British composer, conductor and educator who was known professionally as E. Florence Whitlock. Biography Whitlock was born in Redruth, Cornwall, England. She studied ...

(1889–1978) *

Lydia Boucher Lydia Boucher (28 February 1890 – 5 March 1971) was a Canadian composer, music educator, and nun. She was active as a composer from 1923 to 1971, producing several choir, choral works and pieces for solo piano and Organ (music), organ. Most of ...

(1890–1971) * Marguerite Canal (1890–1978) * Evelyn Faltis (1890–1937) *

Pauline Hall Pauline Hall (born Pauline Fredrika Schmidgall;Browne, Walter and Frederick Arnold Austin. Who's who on the stage: the dramatic reference book and biographical dictionary of the theatre, Volume 1' (1906), p. 120. February 26, 1860 – December ...

(1890–1969) * Grace LeBoy (1890–1983) * Kathleen Lockhart Manning (1890–1951) *

Eda Rapoport Eda Rothstein Rapoport (25 December 1890 – 9 May 1968 in New York City) was a Jewish-American composer and pianist born in the Russian Empire. Biography Rapoport was born in Daugavpils, in the Vitebsk Governorate of the Russian Empire (pre ...

(1890–1968) *

Sara Opal Search Sara Opal Piontkowski Heron Search (14 July 1890 - 3 September 1961) was an American composer who wrote chamber music as well as works for orchestra, concert band, and voice under the name Sara Opal Search. Search was born in Fort Worth Fort W ...

(1890–1961) * Alice Marion Shaw (born 1890) *

Margaret Hoberg Turrell Margaret B. Hoberg Turrell (1890 – 1948) was an American composer, organist, and philanthropist who with her husband Herbert Turrell founded the Turrell Fund in 1935 to aid at-risk children. She published her music under the name Margaret Hoberg. ...

(1890–1948) *

Frida Kern Frida Kern née Seitz (b. 9 March 1891, d. 23 Dec 1988) was an Austrian composer. She was born in Vienna and grew up in Linz, studying piano with Anna Zappa, and later at the Linz Music Academy with August Göllerich. She married Max Kern in 1 ...

(1891–1988) *

Florentina Mallá Florentina Mallá (14 July 1891 – 7 June 1973) was a Czechoslovak composer and pianist. She studied piano with Josef Jiránek at the Prague Conservatory. After graduating in 1913, she studied composition privately with Vítězslav Novák ...

(1891–1973) * Morfydd Llwyn Owen (1891–1918) *

Tamara Antonovna Shaverzashvili Tamara Antonovna Shaverzashvili ( ka, თამარ შავერზაშვილი; 14 October 1891 – 18 September 1955) was a Georgian composer, pianist, and teacher who composed many children’s songs and received an Honored Worker in ...

(1891–1955) *

Catherine Murphy Urner Catherine Murphy Urner Shatto (23 March 1891 – 30 April 1942) was an American composer. Life Catherine Murphy Urner was born in Mitchell, Indiana, the third of seven children of Southern Illinois Normal College principal Edward Everett Urner ...

(1891–1942) * Frances Turgeon Wiggin (1891–1985) * Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman (1892–1971) * Mirrie Hill (1892–1986) * Katherine K. Davis (1892–1980) * Louise E. Stairs (1892–1975) *

(1892–1983) * Anne Upton (1892–1970) *

Ella May Walker Ella May Jacoby Walker (14 May 1892 – 6 April 1960) was a Canadian American artist, author, and composer. Music Walker was born in Minnesota. Her family moved to Dundurn, Saskatchewan, in 1902. She studied music at McGill Conservatory and ...

(1892–1960) *

Mildred Weston Mildred Weston Rogers (May 1892 - February 6, 1975) was an American composer best known for a number of children's pedagogical piano suites. Not to be confused with American poet Mildred Weston (1905-1998) Biography Weston was born in Gallitz ...

(1892–1975) *

Helen Wing Helen Wilkie Wing (February 7, 1892 – December 19, 1981) was an American author, composer, and pianist who was born in Polk, North Carolina. She lived in Chicago, Illinois, for much of her life but also gave recitals in Michigan and Wisconsin. ...

(1892–1981) * Margareta Xenopol (1892–1979) * Lili Boulanger (1893–1918) * Marta Canales (1893–1986) * Dorothy Gow (1893–1982) *

Helen Eugenia Hagan Helen Eugenia Hagan (January 10, 1891 – March 6, 1964) was an American pianist, music educator and composer of African descent.Metzer, David. 'Hagan, Helen Eugenia', in ''Grove Music Online'' (2001) Life Helen Eugenia Hagan was born in Portsmo ...

(1893–1964) * Amy Upham Thomson McKean (1893–1972) * Philippine Schick (1893–1970) * Theodora Troendle (1893–1972) *

Tamara Vakhvakhishvili Composer Tamara Nikolayevna Vakhvakhishvili (23 December 1893 – 1976) was born in Warsaw, but lived much of her life in Georgia, where she was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic. Vakhvakhishvili studied ...

(1893–1976) * Kalitha Dorothy Fox (1894–1934) * Jane M. Joseph (1894–1929) *

Elsa Respighi Elsa Respighi (née Olivieri-Sangiacomo) (24 March 1894 – 17 March 1996) was an Italian singer and composer. She was the wife and former pupil of Ottorino Respighi. Biography A singer (mezzo-soprano) and composer herself, Elsa Respighi cre ...

(1894–1996) * Mildred Souers (1894–1977) * Helen Steele (born 1894) *

Viola Van Katwijk Viola Edna Beck Van Katwijk (26 February 1894 – 25 December 1980) was an American composer and pianist. Her music was published under the names "Viola Beck" and "Viola Van Katwijk." Van Katwijk was born in Denison, Texas, to German immigrants M ...

(1894–1980) * Awilda Villarini (1894–1989) * Sláva Vorlová (1894–1973) * Henriëtte Bosmans (1895–1952) * Kathleen Dale (1895–1984) * Kathleen Richards (1895–1984) * Esther Cox Todd (1895–1971) * Mildred Lund Tyson (1895–1989) * Vera Vinogradova (1895–1982) * Maria Bach (1896–1978) * Shirley Graham Du Bois (1896–1977) * María Teresa Prieto (1896–1982) *

Anna Renfer Anna Margaretha Spoerri Renfer (1896-1984) was a Swiss composer who wrote music for cello, piano, and voice. Renfer was born in Biel/Bienne. She studied piano as a child, then attended the Bern Conservatory, the University of Bern, the Conservato ...

(1896–1984) *

María Luisa Sepúlveda Maira María Luisa Sepúlveda (14 August 18984 April 1958) was a Chilean composer and music educator. Biography María Luisa Sepúlveda was born in Chillán, the daughter of Bernardo Sepúlveda, professor of philosophy and languages at the Lyceum ...

(1896–1958) * Lucie Vellère (1896–1966) *

Rossini Vrionides Rossini Waugh Stewart Vrionides (June 25, 1896 – November 25, 1943) was an American actress, composer, organist and violinist. She performed in vaudeville and on stage under the name "Gypsy Rossini." Rossini was born in Tipton, Indiana, to Ja ...

(1896–1943) *

Benna Moe Benna Olufine Charlotte Moe (December 15, 1897 - Dec. 27, 1983) was a Danish composer and musician. In addition to her compositional gifts, Benna Moe was an organ soloist, pianist and singer. She composed music for orchestra, chamber ensembles, an ...

(1897–1983) *

Margaret Sutherland Margaret Ada Sutherland (20 November 189712 August 1984) was an Australian composer, among the best-known female musicians her country has produced. Career Margaret Sutherland's father was George Sutherland, a journalist and writer and membe ...

(1897–1984) * Muriel Emily Herbert (1897–1984) *

Kay Swift Katharine Faulkner "Kay" Swift (April 19, 1897 – January 28, 1993) was an American composer of popular and classical music, the first woman to score a hit musical completely. Written in 1930, the Broadway musical '' Fine and Dandy'' includes s ...

(1897–1993) *

Ruth Tripp Ruth Erskine Tripp (December 26, 1897 – May 1971) was an American composer, music critic, educator, and pianist. She administered the Works Progress Administration's Federal Music Project (WPA FMP) in the state of Rhode Island from 1940 to 1943. ...

(1897–1971) *

Mildred Cozzens Turner Mildred Josephine Cozzens Ewald Turner (February 23, 1897 – June 9, 1992) was an American composer, pianist, and singer who published her music under the name Mildred Cozzens Turner. Biography Turner was born in Pueblo, Colorado, to Harmon and ...

(1897–1992) * Kathe Volkart-Schlager (1897–1976) * Dorothy Wanderman (1897–1988) * Mimi Wagensonner (1897–1970) * Barbara Giuranna (1898–1998) * Dorothy Howell (1898–1982) * Grace Vamos (1898–1992) *

Stefania Turkewich Stefania Turkewich-Lukianovych (25 April 1898 – 8 April 1977) was a Ukrainian composer, pianist, and musicologist, recognized as Ukraine's first woman composer. Her works were banned in Ukraine by Soviet authorities. Biography Childhood ...

(1998–1977) * Jeanne Leleu (1898–1979) * Svea Nordblad Welander (1898–1985) * Glad Robinson Youse (1898–1985) *

Mansi Barberis Mansi (Clemensa) Barberis (March 12, 1899–October 11, 1986) was a Romanian violinist, music educator, conductor, and composer. Life Clemensa Barberis was born in Iași, the daughter of Giuseppe Barberis and Marguerita Cazaban. She began to imp ...

(1899–1986) * Radie Britain (1899–1994) * Marcelle de Manziarly (1899–1989) * Lili Wieruszowski (1899–1971) * Edith Wire (1899–1973) *

Grete von Zieritz Grete von Zieritz (10 March 1899 – 26 November 2001) was an Austrian-German composer and pianist. Life Grete von Zieritz was born in Vienna, Austria into a noble family, and grew up in Vienna, Innsbruck and Graz. She received her first piano less ...

(1899–2001) * Carmelina Delfin (c. 1900–''after'' 1948)

1900s

* Lola Castegnaro (1900–1979) * Florence Margaret Spencer Palmer (1900–1987) * Gladys Marie Stein (1900–1989) *

Zdenka Ticharich Zdenka Ticharich (Zdenka von Ticharich) (26 September 1900 – 15 February 1979) was a Hungarian pianist, music educator and composer. Life Zdenka Ticharich was born in Budapest. She studied with István Tomka at the National School of Music, ...

(1900–1979) * Elinor Remick Warren (1900–1991) *

Gertrude Price Wollner Gertrude Price Wollner (May 15, 1900 – March 1985) was an American writer and composer. Her teachers included Albert Stossel, E. Robert Schmitz, and Emile Jacques Dalcroze. She married Herbert J. Wollner on April 2, 1926 and they had a daughter ...

(1900–1985) * Lotte Backes (1901–1990) *

Ruth Crawford Seeger Ruth Crawford Seeger (born Ruth Porter Crawford; July 3, 1901 – November 18, 1953) was an American composer and folk music specialist. Her music was a prominent exponent of the emerging modernist aesthetic and she became a central member of a g ...

(1901–1953) * Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté (1901–1974) * Dorothy James (1901–1982) *

Emmy Wegener Emmy Heil Frensel-Wegener (14 June 1901 in Amsterdam – 11 January 1973 in Laren (North Holland) was a Dutch violinist, pianist, poet and composer. Life and career Wegener was the daughter of composer Bertha Frensel Wegener-Koopman and Ame ...

(1901–1973) * Hedy Frank-Autheried (1902–1979) *

Lūcija Garūta Lūcija Garūta (14 May 1902 – 15 February 1977) was a Latvian pianist, poet and composer. She is mostly known for composing the cantata ''Dievs, Tava zeme deg!'' in 1943. Life and career Lūcija Garūta was born in Riga (at the time Russian E ...

(1902–1977) * Helvi Leiviskä (1902–1982) * Doris Gertrude Sheppard (1902–1982) * Irene Skovgaard (1902–1982) *

Freda Swain Freda Swain (31 October 190229 January 1985) was a British composer, pianist and music educator. Biography Freda Swain was born in Portsmouth, England, the daughter of Thomas and Gertrude (née Allen) Swain. Her first piano lessons (from age 11 ...

(1902–1985) * Rose Thisse-Derouette (1902–1989) * Pava Turtygina (1902–1985) *

Claude Arrieu Louise-Marie Simon (30 November 1903 – 7 March 1990), pen name Claude Arrieu, was a prolific French composer. She wrote hundreds of works in varying formats, including stage works, concert works, and movie scores. She was also a teacher, and w ...

(1903–1990) * Helza Cameu (1903–1995) * María Enma Botet Dubois (1903–?) *

Rhoda Coghill Rhoda Sinclair Coghill (14 October 1903 – 9 February 2000) was an Irish pianist, composer and poet. Biography Rhoda Coghill was born in Dublin and studied from the age of eight with Patricia Read at the Leinster School of Music. Between 1913 ...

(1903–2000) *

Avril Coleridge-Taylor Gwendolen Avril Coleridge-Taylor (8 March 190321 December 1998) was an England, English pianist, Conductor (music), conductor, and composer. She was the daughter of composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and his wife Jessie (née Walmisley). Personal ...

(1903–1998) *

Lillian Fuchs Lillian Fuchs (November 18, 1901 – October 5, 1995) was an American violist, teacher and composer. She is considered to be among the finest instrumentalists of her time. She came from a musical family, and her brothers, Joseph Fuchs, a viol ...

(1903–1991) * Jessie Furze (1903–1984) *

Marianne Gary-Schaffhauser Marianne Gary-Schaffhauser (19 July 1903 – 3 November 1992) was an Austrian composer. She was born in Vienna and studied voice and piano at the Vienna Academy, and composition with Alfred Uhl. Later she studied at Vienna University and gradu ...

(1903–1992) * Ivy Priaulx Rainier (1903–1986) *

Miriam Shatal Miriam Shatal (מרים שתל; December 12, 1903 - 2006) was a Dutch-Israeli biologist, painter and composer of choral works. Early life and education Shatal was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, as Marianne Schifra "Jannie" Pinkhof. Miriam was ...

(1903–1983) * Joanídia Sodré (1903–1975) * Iet Stants (1903–1968) *

Heidi Sundblad-Halme Heidi Gabriella Wilhelmina Sundblad-Halme (25 September 1903 – 30 April 1973) was a Finnish composer and conductor who founded the Helsinki Women’s Orchestra and conducted it for 30 years. Career Sundblad-Halme was born in Jakobstad, where her ...

(1903–1973) *

June Weybright June Elizabeth Weybright Reeder (June 15, 1903 – November 15, 1996) was an American composer and music educator who is best known for her piano method books and compositions, published under the name June Weybright. She was born in Jeffersonvill ...

(1903–1996) * Maria Semyonovna Zavalishina (born 1903) * Martha Alter (1904–1976) * Dinorá de Carvalho (1904–1980) * Undine Smith Moore (1904–1989) * Lita Spena (1904–1989) * Dorothy Parke (1904–1990) * Esther Rofe (1904–2000) *

Anne Terrier Laffaille Anne Terrier Laffaille (22 July 1904 – 22 December 1971) was a French composer and founding member of Groupe Melos. Terrier Laffaille was born in Laval. She studied music with Vincent d'Indy at the Schola Cantorum de Paris. In 1950, Terrier Laf ...

(1904–1971) * Mary Wiggins (1904–1974) * Margaret Wigham (1904–1972) * Stefania Anatolyevna Zaranek (1904–1972) * Andrée Bonhomme (1905–1982) *

Ulric Cole Frances Ulric Cole (September 9, 1905 – May 21, 1992) was an American pianist, editor, music educator and composer. She was born in New York and studied in Los Angeles with Homer Grunn, and at the Institute of Musical Arts in New York City (now ...

(1905–1992) *

Elizabeth Poston Elizabeth Poston (24 October 1905 – 18 March 1987) was an English composer, pianist and writer. Early life and career Poston was born in Highfield House in Pin Green, which is now the site of Hampson Park in Stevenage. In 1914, she moved w ...

(1905–1987) * Verdina Shlonsky (1905–1990) *

Constance Cochnower Virtue Constance Cochnower Virtue (6 January 1905 – 21 February 1992) was an American composer and organist who developed a musical notation system called the ''Virtue Notagraph''. Life and career Virtue was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Robert and E ...

(1905–1992) * Shuxian Xiao (1905–1991) * Claire Delbos (1906–1959) *

Miriam Gideon Miriam Gideon (October 23, 1906 – June 18, 1996) was an American composer. Life Miriam Gideon was born in Greeley, Colorado, on October 23, 1906. She studied organ with her uncle Henry Gideon and piano with Felix Fox. She also studied with Ma ...

(1906–1996) *

Zara Levina Zara Aleksandrovna Levina (russian: Зара Александровна Левина; born February 5 ( O.S. January 25), 1906, in Simferopol, Russian Empire – June 27, 1976, in Moscow) was a Soviet pianist and composer. She was from a Jewish fam ...

(1906–1976) *

Elisabeth Lutyens Agnes Elisabeth Lutyens, CBE (9 July 190614 April 1983) was an English composer. Early life and education Elisabeth Lutyens was born in London on 9 July 1906. She was one of the five children of Lady Emily Bulwer-Lytton (1874–1964), a me ...

(1906–1983) * Berta Alves de Sousa (1906–1997) *

Louise Talma Louise Juliette Talma (October 31, 1906August 13, 1996) was an American composer, academic, and pianist. After studies in New York and in France, piano with Isidor Philipp and composition with Nadia Boulanger, she focused on composition from 193 ...

(1906–1996) * Elinor Meissner Traeger (1906–1983) * Clara Wildschut (1906–1950) *

Grace Williams Grace Mary Williams (19 February 1906 – 10 February 1977) was a Welsh composer, generally regarded as Wales's most notable female composer, and the first British woman to score a feature film. Early life Williams was born in Barry, Vale ...

(1906–1977) *

Ludmila Anatolievna Yaroshevskaya Ludmila Anatolievna Yaroshevskaya (14 September 1906 – 27 March 1975) was a Soviet composer, pianist, and concertmistress. A native of Kiev, she studied piano with V. Pukhalsky at the Lysenko Music School there, graduating in 1930. She was concer ...

(1906–1975) *

Esther Zweig Esther Sommerstein Zweig (July 29, 1906August 3, 1981) was an American composer, writer, translator, and teacher. She was born in New York and studied at Hunter College, New York University, the University of Vienna, and the Jewish Theological Se ...

(1906–1981) *

Ann Ronell Ann Ronell (née Rosenblatt; December 25, 1905 — December 25, 1993) was an American composer and lyricist. She was best known for the standards " Willow Weep for Me" (1932) and " Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf" (1933). Early life Ronell was b ...

(1906/1908–1993) *

Lora Aborn Lora Aborn Busck (May 30, 1907 – August 25, 2005) was an American composer. Biography Lora Aborn was born in New York City and began studying piano, music theory and composition at the Effa Ellis Perfield School of Music. She continued studyin ...

(1907–2005) *

Yvonne Desportes Yvonne Desportes (18 July 1907 – 29 December 1993) was a French composer, writer, and music educator. She was born in Coburg, Germany, to Émile Desportes, a composer, and Bertha Troriep, a painter. She was a student of Paul Dukas and won t ...

(1907–1993) * Koharik Gazarossian (1907–1967) *

Imogen Holst Imogen Clare Holst (; 12 April 1907 – 9 March 1984) was a British composer, arranger, conductor, teacher, musicologist, and festival administrator. The only child of the composer Gustav Holst, she is particularly known for her education ...

(1907–1984) * Elizabeth Maconchy (1907–1994) * Roberta Martin (1907–1969) * Maria Teresa Pelegrí i Marimón (1907–1995) * Hazel Volkart (1907–1985) * Claude Porter White (1907–1975) *

(1907–1991) * Aimee Wiele (1907–1981) * Roberta Bitgood (1908–2007) * Jean Coulthard (1908–2000) * Helen Glatz (1908–1996) * Joan Mary Last (1908–2002) * Zenobia Powell Perry (1908–2004) * Trude Rittmann (1908–2005) * Alice Samter (1908–2004) * Michiko Toyama (1908–2000) * Ida Vivado (1908–1989) * Grażyna Bacewicz (1909–1969) * Maria Dziewulska (1909–2006) * Minna Keal (1909–1999) * Ljubica Marić (1909–2003) * Alice Streatch (1909–1999) * Dana Suesse (1909–1987) * Cecile Vashaw (1909–1985) * Zinaida Petrovna Ziberova (born 1909)

1910s

* Ana Serrano Redonnet (191?–1993) * Elsa Barraine (1910–1999) * Lycia de Biase Bidart (1910–1990) * Patricia Blomfield Holt (1910–2003) * Shena Fraser (1910–1993) * Lila Lalauni (1910–1996) * Paule Maurice (1910–1967) * Evelyn La Rue Pittman (1910–1992) * Friederike Schwarz (1910–1945) * Dagmara Slianova-Mizandari (1910–1983) * Galina Konstantinovna Smirnova (1910–1980) * Alliene Brandon Webb (1910–1965) * Mary Lou Williams (1910–1981) * Louise Yazbeck (1910–1995) * Kikuko Kanai (1911–1986) * Anne-Marie Ørbeck (1911–1996) * Marina Scriabina (1911–1998) * Julia Smith (composer), Julia Smith (1911–1989) * Phyllis Tate (1911–1987) * Margaret Jones Wiles (1911–2000) * Ilse Gerda Wunsch (1911–2003) * :de:Lydia Auster, Lydia Auster (1911–1989) * Jeanne Behrend (1912–1988) * Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912–1990) * Gisela Hernández (1912–1971) * Sirvart Karamanuk (1912–2008) * Barbara Pentland (1912–2000) * Irena Pfeiffer (1912–1996) * Jadwiga Szajna-Lewandowska (1912–1994) * Violet Archer (1913–2000) * Isabel Aretz (1913–2005) * Margaret Allison Bonds (1913–1972) * Matilde Capuis (1913–2017) * Peggy Stuart Coolidge (1913–1981) * Sylvia Fine (1913–1991) * Vivian Fine (1913–2000) * Dulcie Holland (1913–2000) * Miriam Hyde (1913–2005) * Netty Simons (1913–1994) * Rodica Sutzu (1913–1979) * Jane Vignery (1913–1974) * Esther Allan (1914–1985) * Cacilda Borges Barbosa (1914–2010) * Suzanne Joly (1914–2012) * Minuetta Kessler (1914–2002) * Teresa Rampazzi (1914–2001) * Josée Vigneron-Ramackers (1914–2002) * Regina Hansen Willman (1914–1965) * Esther Ballou (1915–1973) * Eunice Catunda (1915–1991) * Júlia Hajdú (1915–1987) * Pamela Harrison (composer), Pamela Harrison (1915–1990) * Najla Jabor (1915–2001) * Vítězslava Kaprálová (1915–1940) * Eunice Katunda (1915–1991) * Marjo Tal (1915–2006) * Joan Trimble (1915–2000) * Pamela Motley Verrall (1915–1996) * Berthe di Vito-Delvaux (1915–2005) * Edwina Florence Wills (1915–2002) * Ann Wyeth McCoy (1915–2005) * Jane Corner Young (1915–2001) * Olga De Blanck Martín (1916–1998) * Carin Malmlöf-Forssling (1916–2005) * Erna Tauro (1916–1993) * Ruth Shaw Wylie (1916–1989) * Beatrice Witkin (1916–1990) * Els Aarne (1917–1995) * Joyce Howard Barrell (1917–1989) * Clarisse Leite (1917–2003) * Geraldine Mucha (1917–2012) * Maj Sønstevold (1917–1996) * Ėta Mayseyewna Tïrmand (1917–2008) * Erna Woll (1917–2005) * Frances Ziffer (1917–1996) * Lila-Gene George (1918–2017) * Lina Pires de Campos (1918–2003) * Gayane Č'ebotaryan (1918–1998) * Dilys Elwyn-Edwards (1918–2012) * Lucrecia Roces Kasilag (1918–2008) * Matilde Salvador (1918–2007) * Denise Tolkowsky (1918–1991) * Jórunn Viðar (1918–2017) * Norma Wendelburg (1918–2016) * Yevgania Yosifovna Yakhina (1918–1983) * Roslyn Brogue (1919–1981) * Eleonora Eksanishvili (1919–2003) * Ludmila Frajt (1919–1999) * Dorothy Whitson Freed (1919–2000) * Hilda Jerea (1919–1980) * Tamara Maliukova Sidorenko (1919–2005) * Qu Xixian (1919–2008) * Galina Ustvolskaya (1919–2006) * Constance Walton (1919–2017)

1920s

* Rolande Falcinelli (1920–2006) * Dorothea Anne Franchi (1920–2003) * Nydia Pereyra-Lizaso (1920–1998) * Hazel Ghazarian Skaggs (1920–2005) * Janina Skowronska (1920–1992) * Marion Vree (1920–2012) * Helen L. Weiss (1920–1948) * Chaya Arbel (1921–2007) * Dorothea Austin (1921–2011) * Adrienne Clostre (1921–2006) * Jeanne Demessieux (1921–1968) * Ruth Gipps (1921–1999) * Nazife Güran (1921–1993) * Mara Petrova (1921–1997) * Alice Sirooni (1921–2011) * Hanna Skalska-Szemioth (1921–1964) * Rosalina Abejo (1922–1991) * Margaret Buechner (1922–1998) * Doreen Carwithen (1922–2003) * Odette Gartenlaub (1922–2014) * Ester Mägi (1922–2021) * Sylvia Rexach (1922–1961) * Jeanine Rueff (1922–1999) * Virginia Seay (1922–2015) * Nadezhda Simonyan (1922–1997) * Dorothy Geneva Styles (1922–1984) * Doris Akers (1923–1995) * Teresa Borràs i Fornell (1923–2010) * Madeleine Dring (1923–1977) * Jean Eichelberger Ivey (1923–2010) * Ursula Mamlok (1923–2016) * Dika Newlin (1923–2006) * Elena Romero (composer), Elena Romero (1923–1996) * Maria Schüppel (1923-2011) * Mira Sulpizi (born 1923) * Asya Sultanova (1923–2021) * Ludmila Ulehla (1923–2009) * Katharine Mulky Warne (1923–2015) * Elisabet Wentz-Janacek (1923–2014) * Shafiga Akhundova (1924–2013) * Leni Alexander (1924–2005) * Jeanne Colin-De Clerck (born 1924) * Zhivka Klinkova (1924–2002) * Angela Morley (1924–2009) * Krystyna Moszumańska-Nazar (1924–2009) * Tatyana Nikolayeva (1924–1993) * Gladys Nordenstrom (1924–2016) * Else Marie Pade (1924–2016) * Julia Perry (1924–1979) * Ruth Schonthal (1924–2006) * Jitka Snížková (1924–1989) * Sylvia Soublette (1924–2020) * Erzsébet Szőnyi (1924–2019) * Tui St. George Tucker (1924–2004) * Consuelo Velázquez (1924–2005) * Bebe Barron (1925–2008) * Cathy Berberian (1925–1983) * P. Bhanumathi (1925–2005) * Edith Borroff (1925–2019) * Hilda Dianda (born 1925) * Ginette Keller (1925–2010) * Lyudmila Lyadova (1925–2021) * Nelly Moretto (1925–1978) * Daphne Oram (1925–2003) * Alice Parker (born 1925) * Amado Santos Ocampo (1925–2009) * Jeanne Ellison Shaffer (1925–2009) * Yolande Uyttenhove (1925–2000) * Margaret Shelley Vance (1925–2008) * Estelle White (1925–2011) * Ruth White (composer), Ruth White (1925–2013) * Puchi Balseiro (1926–2007) * Modesta Bor (1926–1998) * Janine Charbonnier (1926–2022) * Irina Elcheva (1926–2013) * Zhun Huang (born 1926) * Betsy Jolas (born 1926) * Melinda Kistétényi (1926–1999) * Maria de Lourdes Martins (1926–2009) * Carmen Petra-Basacopol (born 1926) * Claire Polin (1926–1995) * Marga Richter (1926–2020) * Esther Scliar (1926–1978) * Natela Svanidze (1926–2017) * An-Ming Wang (born 1926) * Irina Yel'cheva (1926–2013) * Ruth Zechlin (1926–2007) * Valentine Yanovna Zhubinskaya (1926–2013) * Marilyn J Ziffrin (1926–2018) * Dolores Claman (1927–2021) * Emma Lou Diemer (born 1927) * Elaine Hugh-Jones (1927–2021) * Eva Schorr (1927–2016) * Williametta Spencer (born 1927) * Mary Jeanne Van Appledorn (1927–2014) * Marcelle Villin (born 1927) * Chris Mary Francine Whittle (born 1927) * Rolande Maxwell Young (1927–2015) * Gaziza Zhubanova (1927–1993) * Margrit Zimmermann (1927–2020) * Luna Alcalay (1928–2012) * Ruth Anderson (composer), Ruth Anderson (1928–2019) * Betty Jackson King (1928–1994) * Judith Dvorkin (1928–1995) * Sarah Feigin (1928–2011) * Beverly Grigsby (born 1928) * Lena McLin (born 1928) * Gladys Smuckler Moskowitz (born 1928) * Nadežka Mosusova (born 1928) * Thea Musgrave (born 1928) * Adelaide Pereira da Silva (1928–2021) * Mary McCarty Snow (1928–2012) * Mira J. Spektor (1928–2021) * Louise Spizizen (1928–2010) * Arlene Buckneberg Ydstie (born 1928) * Zlata Tkach (1928–2006) * Toshiko Akiyoshi (born 1929) * Nini Bulterijs (1929–1989) * Geghuni Hovannesi Chitchian (born 1929) * Siegrid Ernst (1929–2022) * Micki Grant (1929–2021) * Dina Koston (1929–2009) * Nada Ludvig-Pečar (1929–2008) * Lata Mangeshkar (1929–2022) * Meena Mangeshkar (born 1931) * Pierrette Mari (born 1929) * Aleksandra Pakhmutova (born 1929) * Elena Petrová (1929–2002) * Irma Urteaga (1929–2022) * Jeannine Vanier (born 1929)

1930s

* Yardena Alotin (1930–1994) * Vera Baeva (1930–2017) * Jacqueline Fontyn (born 1930) * Joan Franks Williams (1930–2003) * Antoinette Kirkwood (1930–2014) * Kay Lande (born 1930) * Ruth Lomon (1930–2017) * Gudrun Lund (1930–2020) * Jana Obrovská (1930–1987) * Betty Roe (born 1930) * Clotilde Rosa (1930–2017) * E. Anne Schwerdtfeger (1930–2008) * Naomi Shemer (1930–2004) * Ann Loomis Silsbee (1930–2003) * Helen Camille Stanley (born 1930) * Nancy Van de Vate (born 1930) * Marion Verhaalen (1930–2020) * Monica Witni (born 1930) * Nancy Laird Chance (born 1931) * Lucia Dlugoszewski (1931–2000) * Felicia Donceanu (1931–2022) *

(born 1931) * Rosa Guraieb (1931–2014) * Yüksel Koptagel (born 1931) * Young-ja Lee (born 1931) * Maria Dolores Malumbres (1931–2019) * Myriam Marbe (1931–1997) * Joyce Mekeel (1931–1997) * Phillipa Duke Schuyler (1931–1967) * Alida Vázquez (1931–2018) * Elaine Barkin (born 1932) * Betty Beath (born 1932) * Diana Pereira Hay (born 1932) * Marta Jiráčková (born 1932) * Liu Zhuang (musician), Liu Zhuang (1932–2011) * Tera de Marez Oyens (1932–1996) * Pauline Oliveros (1932–2016) * Eliane Radigue (born 1932) * Dorothy Ashby (1932–1986) * Kilza Setti (born 1932) * Gitta Steiner (1932–1990) * Ruth Watson Henderson (born 1932) * Pozzi Escot (born 1933) * Ida Gotkovsky (born 1933) * Elena Karastoyanova (born 1933) * Yoko Ono (born 1933) * Charlotte Moorman (1933–1991) * Maria Helena Rosas Fernandes (born 1933) * Rocio Sanz (1933–1993) * Alicia Urreta (1933–1987) * Tatyana Voronina (born 1933) * Joan Dolores Wilson (born 1933) * Huguang Xin (1933–2011) * Norma Beecroft (born 1934) * Nicole Lachartre (1934–1992) * Mary Mageau (1934–2020) * Zhanneta Lazarevna Metallidi (1934–2019) * Teresa Procaccini (born 1934) * Beatrice Siegrist (born 1934) * Alicia Terzian (born 1934) * Arlene Zallman (1934–2006) * Zinaida Petrovna Ziberova (1934–2012) * Thérèse Brenet (born 1935) * Biancamaria Furgeri (born 1935) * Helen Gifford (born 1935) * Kazuko Hara (1935–2014) * Enid Luff (1935–2022) * Jacqueline Nova (1935–1975) * Clara Sinde Ramallal (born 1935) * Mirjana Sistek-Djordjevic (born 1935) * Julia Stilman-Lasansky (1935–2007) * Ivana Marburger Themmen (born 1935) * Mary Lynn Twombly (born 1935) * Shirley Walker (1935–2006) * Wang Qiang (composer), Qiang Wang (born 1935) * Mirjana Živković (1935–2020) * Sieglinda Ahrens (born 1936) * Izabella Arazova (born 1936) * Monic Cecconi-Botella (born 1936) * Erika Radermacher (born 1936) * Erika Fox (born 1936) * Barbara Heller (born 1936) * Trisutji Kamal (1936–2021) * Sheila Mary Nelson (1936–2020) * Jocy de Oliveira (born 1936) * Vivian Adelberg Rudow (born 1936) * Brunhilde Sonntag (1936–2002) * Myra Brooks Turner (1936–2017) * Keiko Abe (born 1937) * Janet Beat (born 1937) * Constança Capdeville (1937–1992) * Delia Derbyshire (1937–2001) * Beatriz Ferreyra (born 1937) * Irina Odăgescu (born 1937) * Katherine Hoover (1937–2018) * Marta Lambertini (1937–2019) * Claire Liddell (born 1937) * Diana McIntosh (born 1937) * Kikuko Masumoto (born 1937) * Bernadetta Matuszczak (1937–2021) * Irma Ravinale (1937–2013) * Sharda (singer) (born 1937) * Darinka Simic-Mitrovic (born 1937) * Ann Southam (1937–2010) * Inna Abramovna Zhvanetskaia (born 1937) * Isabelle Aboulker (born 1938) * Maryanne Amacher (1938–2009) * Elizabeth R. Austin (born 1938) * Carla Bley (born 1938) * Ann Carr-Boyd (born 1938) * Gloria Coates (born 1938) * Piera Pistono (born 1938) * Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux (1938–1985) * Tona Scherchen (born 1938) * Shakhida Shaimardanova (born 1938) * Mieko Shiomi (composer), Mieko Shiomi (born 1938) * Cornelia Tăutu (1938–2019) * Joan Tower (born 1938) * Betty Ann Wong (born 1938) * Elinor Armer (born 1939) * Wendy Carlos (born 1939) * Marcelle Deschênes (born 1939) * Lesya Dychko (born 1939) * Maija Einfelde (born 1939) * Jennifer Fowler (born 1939) * Barbara Kolb (born 1939) * Annea Lockwood (born 1939) * María Luisa Ozaita (1939–2017) * Katherine Teck (born 1939) * Inger Wikström (born 1939) * Margaret Lucy Wilkins (born 1939) * Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (born 1939)

1940s

* Heidi Baader-Nobs (born 1940) * Margaret Brouwer (born 1940) * Graciela Castillo (born 1940) * Eleanor Hovda (1940–2009) * Maria Teresa Luengo (born 1940) * Dorothy Rudd Moore (1940–2022) * Graciela Paraskevaidis (1940–2017) * Chitra Singh (born 1940) * Awilda Villarini (born 1940) * Eleni Karaindrou (born 1941) * Adrienne Albert (born 1941) * Judith Margaret Bailey (born 1941) * Anđelka Bego-Šimunić (born 1941) * Kay Gardner (composer), Kay Gardner (1941–2002) * Sorrel Hays (1941–2020) * Moya Henderson (born 1941) * Viera Janárčeková (born 1941) * Usha Khanna (born 1941) * Edith Lejet (born 1941) * Ivana Loudová (1941–2017) * Jenny Helen McLeod (born 1941) * Sook-Ja Oh (born 1941) * Terry Winter Owens (1941–2007) * Ferdousi Rahman (born 1941) * Magaly Ruiz, Magaly Ruiz Lastres (born 1941) * Dorothy Strutt (born 1941) * Elizabeth Walton Vercoe (born 1941) * Gillian Whitehead (born 1941) * Birgitte Alsted (born 1942) * Silvana Di Lotti (born 1942) * Canary Burton (born 1942) * Helen Fisher (composer), Helen Fisher (born 1942) * Priscilla McLean (born 1942) * Haruna Miyake (born 1942) * Meredith Monk (born 1942) * Kyungsun Suh (born 1942) * Diane Thome (born 1942) * Solange Ancona (born 1943) * Christine Berl (born 1943) * Michèle Bokanowski (born 1943) * Joanna Bruzdowicz (1943–2021) * Laura Clayton (born 1943) * Eleanor Cory (born 1943) * Margriet Ehlen (born 1943) * Judy Klein (born 1943) * Anne Lauber (born 1943) * Tania León (born 1943) * Marta Ptaszynska (born 1943) * Michèle Reverdy (born 1943) * Alice Shields (born 1943) * Elżbieta Sikora (born 1943) * Pril Smiley (born 1943) * Iwonka Bogumila Szymanska (born 1943) * Françoise Barrière (1944–2019) * Alison Bauld (born 1944) * Ana Bofill Levi (born 1944) * Gabriella Cecchi (born 1944) * Tatyana Chudova (1944–2021) * Gloria González (composer), Gloria González (born 1944) * Elsa Justel (born 1944) * Beatriz Lockhart (1944–2015) * Gabriela Moyseowicz (born 1944) * Claire Renard (born 1944) * Marisa Rezende (born 1944) * Rhian Samuel (born 1944) * Margaret Scoville (1944–1978) * Silvia Sommer (born 1944) * Graciela Agudela (1945–2018) * Maya Badian (born 1945) * Gillian Bibby (born 1945) * Victoria Bond (born 1945) * Dorothy Quita Buchanan (born 1945) * Judith Ann Clingan (born 1945) * Melanie Ruth Daiken (1945–2016) * Graciane Finzi (born 1945) * Ig Henneman (born 1945) * Nagako Konishi (born 1945) * Chan-Hae Lee (born 1945) * Vânia Dantas Leite (1945–2018) * Younghi Pagh-Paan (born 1945) * Maggi Payne (born 1945) * Elizabeth Raum (born 1945) * Carol Sams (born 1945) * Marielli Sfakianaki (born 1945) * Laurie Spiegel (born 1945) * Toyoko Takami (born 1945) * Julia Usher (born 1945) * Judith Lang Zaimont (born 1945) * Barbara Benary (1946–2019) * Renate Birnstein (born 1946) * Anne Boyd (born 1946) * Geneviève Calame (1946–1993) * Suzanne Ciani (born 1946) * Dora Draganova (born 1946) * Tsippi Fleischer (born 1946) * Janice Giteck (born 1946) * Ann-Elise Hannikainen (1946–2012) * Ho Wai-On (born 1946) * Neva Krasteva (born 1946) * Joyce Solomon Moorman (born 1946) * Jane O'Leary (born 1946) * Anna Rubin (born 1946) * Claire Schapira (born 1946) * Daria Semegen (born 1946) * Marilyn Shrude (born 1946) * Sheila Silver (born 1946) * Annette Vande Gorne (born 1946) * Joelle Wallach (born 1946) * Hildegard Westerkamp (born 1946) * Barbara Maria Zakrzewska-Nikiporczyk (born 1946) * Pınar Köksal (1946–2019) * Liana Alexandra (1947–2011) * Laurie Anderson (performance artist), Laurie Anderson (born 1947) * Franghiz Ali-Zadeh (born 1947) * Ruth Bakke (born 1947) * Ada Gentile (born 1947) * Mayako Kubo (born 1947) * Joan La Barbara (born 1947) * Nicola LeFanu (born 1947) * Zarrina Mirshakar (born 1947) * Vojna Nešić (born 1947) * Rosica Petkova (born 1947) * Grażyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil (born 1947) * Faye-Ellen Silverman (born 1947) * Valerie Vonpechy (born 1947) * Hilary Tann (born 1947) * Karen Tarlow (born 1947) * Gwyneth Van Anden Walker (born 1947) * Susan Cohn Lackman (born 1947) * Betty Rose Wishart (born 1947) * Hsiung-Zee Wong (born 1947) * Gisèle Barreau (born 1948) * Diana Burrell (born 1948) * Julia Tsenova, Julia Cenova (1948–2010) * Janet Graham (born 1948) * Kerstin Jeppsson (born 1948) * Christina Kubisch (born 1948) * Junko Mori (composer), Junko Mori (born 1948) * Ilza Nogueira (born 1948) * Sally Johnston Reid (1948–2019) * Shoshana Riseman (born 1948) * Ilona Sekacz (born 1948) * Lyudmila Karpawna Shleh (born 1948) * Bernadette Speach (born 1948) * Ivana Stefanović (born 1948) * Julia Tsenova (1948–2010) * Carol Ann Weaver (born 1948) * Jeanne Zaidel-Rudolph (born 1948) * Eleanor Alberga (born 1949) * Carol E Barnett (born 1949) * Ann Callaway (born 1949) * Rachel Galinne (born 1949) * Alexina Louie (born 1949) * Odaline de la Martinez (born 1949) * Zhanna Vasil'yevna Pliyeva (born 1949) * Shulamit Ran (born 1949) * Angela Ro Ro (born 1949) * Sharon Ruchman (born 1949) * Kimi Sato (born 1949) * Judith Shatin (born 1949) * Marina Marta Vlad (born 1949) * Rain Worthington (born 1949)

1950s

* Lejla Agolli (born 1950) * Beth Anderson (composer), Beth Anderson (born 1950) * Édith Canat de Chizy (born 1950) * Elena Firsova (born 1950) * Åse Hedstrøm (born 1950) * Yelena Sergeyevna Konshina (born 1950) * Libby Larsen (born 1950) * Elodie Lauten (born 1950) * Lam Manyee (born 1950) * Vivienne Olive (born 1950) * Synne Skouen (born 1950) * Nancy Telfer (born 1950) * Anneli Arho (born 1951) * Beatriz Bilbao (born 1951) * Karólína Eiríksdóttir (born 1951) * Nancy Galbraith (born 1951) * Halina Harelava (born 1951) * Patricia Jünger (born 1951) * Joëlle Léandre (born 1951) * Cecilia McDowall (born 1951) * Liz Phillips (born 1951) * Jeannie G. Pool (born 1951) * Marcela Rodríguez (composer), Marcela Rodríguez (born 1951) * Doina Rotaru (born 1951) * Tat'yana Sergeyeva (born 1951) * Elizabeth Swados (1951–2016) * Lois V Vierk (born 1951) * Kristi Allik (born 1952) * Judith Bingham (born 1952) * Helen Bowater (born 1952) * Nicole Carignan (born 1952) * Maya Ciobanu (born 1952) * Tina Davidson (born 1952) * Janet Dunbar (born 1952) * Margriet Hoenderdos (1952–2010) * Grażyna Krzanowska (born 1952) * Runa Laila (born 1952) * Bunita Marcus (born 1952) * Alla Pavlova (born 1952) *

(born 1952) * Jane Sinclair Wells (born 1952) * Lettie Alston (born 1953) * Avril Anderson (born 1953) * Sonja Beets (born 1953) * Josefina Benedetti (born 1953) * Susan Morton Blaustein (born 1953) * Wendy Mae Chambers (born 1953) * Chen Yi (composer), Chen Yi (born 1953) * Jody Diamond (born 1953) * Violeta Dinescu (born 1953) * Eibhlis Farrell (born 1953) * Adriana Hölszky (born 1953) * Anne LeBaron (born 1953) * Cynthia Cozette Lee (born 1953) * Anne Linnet (born 1953) * Cindy McTee (born 1953) * Lidia Zielińska (born 1953) * Sylvie Bodorová (born 1954) * Elisabetta Brusa (born 1954) * Judith Cloud (born 1954) * María Escribano (born 1954) * Susan Frykberg (born 1954) * Juliana Hall (born 1958) * Irina Hasnaş (born 1954) * Birgit Havenstein (born 1954) * Brenda Hutchinson (born 1954) * Denise Kelly (born 1954) * Hi Kyung Kim (born 1954) * Renata Kunkel (born 1954) * Bun-Ching Lam (born 1954) * Pamela J. Marshall (born 1954) * Ella Milch-Sheriff (born 1954) * Betty Olivero (born 1954) * Cecilie Ore (born 1954) * Elizabeth Hayden Pizer (born 1954) * Clare Shore (born 1954) * Judith Weir (born 1954) * Pearle Christian (born 1955) * Eleanor Joanne Daley (born 1955) * Susanne Erding-Swiridoff (born 1955) * Elisenda Fabregas (born 1955) * Diamanda Galás (born 1955) * Gerda Geertens (born 1955) * Anne La Berge (born 1955) * Masguda Shamsutdinova (born 1955) * Iryna Kyrylina (born 1955) * Lori Laitman (born 1955) * Marilyn Mazur (born 1955) * Karmella Tsepkolenko (born 1955) * Janika Vandervelde (born 1955) * Regina Harris Baiocchi (born 1956) * Sally Beamish (born 1956) * Chiara Benati (born 1956) * Eve de Castro-Robinson (born 1956) * Deborah Drattell (born 1956) * Anne Dudley (born 1956) * Michelle Ekizian (born 1956) * Madeleine Isaksson (born 1956) * Joan Jeanrenaud (born 1956) * Laura Kaminsky (born 1956) * Makiko Kinoshita (born 1956) * Larysa Kuzmenko (born 1956) * Silvina Milstein (born 1956) * Onutė Narbutaitė (born 1956) * Marie Samuelsson (born 1956) * Carla Scaletti (born 1956) * Carolyn Steinberg (born 1956) * Iris Szeghy (born 1956) * Pamela Z (born 1956) * Linda Bouchard (born 1957) * Chaya Czernowin (born 1957) * Ellen Fullman (born 1957) * Regina Irman (born 1957) * Elena Kats-Chernin (born 1957) * Marcela Pavia (born 1957) * Karin Rehnqvist (born 1957) * Pan Shiji (born 1957) * Linda Catlin Smith (born 1957) * Joan Szymko (born 1957) * Karen P. Thomas (born 1957) * Melinda Wagner (born 1957) * Janet Wheeler (born 1957) * Eve Beglarian (born 1958) * Maura Bosch (born 1958) * Rhona Clarke (born 1958) * Zulema de la Cruz (born 1958) * Beth Denisch (born 1958) * Consuelo Díez (born 1958) * Suzanne Giraud (born 1958) * Juliana Hall (born 1958) * Hanna Havrylets' (born 1958) * Miya Masaoka (born 1958) * Errollyn Wallen (born 1958) * Julia Wolfe (born 1958) * Barbara Woof (born 1958) * Sinta Wullur (born 1958) * Caroline Ansink (born 1959) * Carola Bauckholt (born 1959) * Sussan Deyhim (born ca. 1958) * Ilona Breģe (born 1959) * Adina Izarra (born 1959) * Laura Karpman (born 1959) * Ana Lara (born 1959) * Marianella Machado (born 1959) * Hilda Paredes (born 1959) * Stevie Wishart (born 1959) * Marti Epstein (born 1959) * Shimul Yousuf (born 1959)

1960s

* Barbara Arens (born 1960) * Maria de Alvear (born 1960) * Sonia Bo (born 1960) * Victoria Borisova-Ollas (born 1969) * Yekaterina Chemberdzhi (born 1960) * Andrea Clearfield (born 1960) * Annie Gosfield (born 1960) * Priti Paintal (born 1960) * Jocelyn Pook (born 1960) * Rachel Portman (born 1960) * Maria Schneider (musician), Maria Schneider (born 1960) * Ute Wassermann (born 1960) * Ana-Maria Avram (born 1961) * Enya (born 1961) * Unsuk Chin (born 1961) * Julie Giroux (born 1961) * Hanna Kulenty (born 1961) * Michiru Oshima (born 1961) * Janet Owen Thomas (1961–2002) * Lourdes Perez (born 1961) * Isabel Soveral (born 1961) * Karen Tanaka (born 1961) * Carolyn Yarnell (born 1961) * Sylvia Constantinidis (born 1962) * Mary Finsterer (born 1962) * Jennifer Higdon (born 1962) * Amy X Neuburg (born 1962) * Victoria Poleva (born 1962) * Rosephanye Powell (born 1962) * Lolita Ritmanis (born 1962) * Laura Schwendinger (born 1962) * Alex Shapiro (born 1962) * Chen Shihui (born 1962) * Bettina Skrzypczak (born 1962) * Allison Cameron (composer), Allison Cameron (born 1963) * Keiko Fujiie (born 1963) * Joelle Khoury (born 1963) * Veronika Krausas (born 1963) * Sophie Lacaze (born 1963) * Ann Millikan (born 1963) * Isabel Mundry (born 1963) * Halyna Ovcharenko (born 1963) * Lucia Ronchetti (born 1963) * Elena Ruehr (born 1963) * Calliope Tsoupaki (born 1963) * Hana Vejvodová (1963–1994) * Debbie Wiseman (born 1963) * Michiru Yamane (born 1963) * Julia Gomelskaya (1964–2016) * Gao Hong (born 1964) * Yoko Kanno (born 1964) * Eva Noer Kondrup (born 1964) * Gabriela Ortiz (born 1964) * Sarah Peebles (born 1964) * Annette Schlünz (born 1964) * Augusta Read Thomas (born 1964) * Mariana Villanueva (born 1964) * Diane Wittry (born 1964) * Jennifer Margaret Barker (born 1965) * Carin Bartosch Edström (born 1965) * Zana Clarke (born 1965) * Evelyn Glennie (born 1965) * Rozalie Hirs (born 1965) * Yuki Kajiura (born 1965) * Sofia Levkovskaya (1965–2011) * Albena Petrovic-Vratchanska (born 1965) * Charlotte Seither (born 1965) * Georgia Spiropoulos (born 1965) * Dorothy Hindman (born 1966) * Melissa Hui (born 1966) * Liza Lim (born 1966) * Gráinne Mulvey (born 1966) * Irene Olla (born 1966) * Deirdre Gribbin (born 1967) * Yukie Nishimura (born 1967) * Rebecca Saunders (born 1967) * Yoko Shimomura (born 1967) * Katia Tiutiunnik (born 1967) * Isidora Žebeljan (1967–2020) * Laura Andel (born 1968) * Lisa Bielawa (born 1968) * Kerani (born 1968) * Vanessa Lann (born 1968) * Elainie Lillios (born 1968) * Sarah MacDonald (musician) (born 1968) * Olga Neuwirth (born 1968) * Roxanna Panufnik (born 1968) * Ana Sokolovic (born 1968) * Anjelika Akbar (born 1969) * Johanna Doderer (born 1969)

1970s

* Siobhán Cleary (born 1970) * Graziella Concas (born 1970) * Marzena Komsta (born 1970) * Chihchun Chi-sun Lee (born 1970) * Lotta Wennäkoski (born 1970) * Marina Leonardi (born 1970) * Arlene Sierra (born 1970) * Aleksandra Vrebalov (born 1970) * Malika Kishino (born 1971) * Soe Tjen Marching (born 1971) * Katharina Rosenberger (born 1971) * Ingrid Stölzel (born 1971) * Jessica Grace Wing (1971–2003) * Natasha Barrett (composer), Natasha Barrett (born 1972) * Emily Doolittle (born 1972) * Amber Ferenz (born 1972) * Gabriela Lena Frank (born 1972) * Hiba Kawas (born 1972) * Analia Llugdar (born 1972) * Deborah Lurie (born 1972) * Nkeiru Okoye (born 1972) * Helena Tulve (born 1972) * Sungji Hong (born 1973) * Lera Auerbach (born 1973) * Jessica Curry (born 1973) * Tansy Davies (born 1973) * Amy Scurria (born 1973) * Luna Pearl Woolf (born 1973) * Selma Björnsdóttir (born 1974) * Ellen C. Covito (born 1974) * Meri von KleinSmid (born 1974) * Ailís Ní Ríain (born 1974) * Sophie Viney (born 1974) * Jennifer Walshe (born 1974) * Dalit Warshaw (born 1974) * Hyo-Won Woo (born 1974) * Kati Agócs (born 1975) * Eugenia Manolidou (born 1975) * Linda Martinez (1975–2005) * Raminta Šerkšnytė (born 1975) * Annelies Van Parys (born 1975) * Svitlana Azarova (born 1976) * Rita Kassabian (born 1976) * Catherine Kontz (born 1976) * Andrea Reinkemeyer (born 1976) * Wang Ying (composer), Wang Ying (born 1976) * Hafdís Bjarnadóttir (born 1977) * Karola Obermueller (born 1977) * Deborah Pritchard (born 1977) * Jennifer Thomas (pianist) (born 1977) * Anna S. Þorvaldsdóttir (Thorvaldsdottir) (born 1977) * Du Yun (born 1977) * Wu Fei (born 1977) * Kerry Andrew (born 1978) * Justine Electra (born 1978) * Emily Hall (born 1978) * Vanessa-Mae (born 1978) * Anna Meredith (born 1978) * Agata Zubel (born 1978) * Clarice Assad (born 1978) * Annesley Black (born 1979) * Emily Howard (born 1979) * Kate Moore (composer), Kate Moore (born 1979)

1980s

* Abbie Betinis (born 1980) * Anna Clyne (born 1980) * Cheryl Frances-Hoad (born 1980) * Wang Jie (composer), Wang Jie (born 1980) * Maria Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir (born 1980) * Dobrinka Tabakova (born 1980) * Missy Mazzoli (born 1980) * Sarah Nemtsov (born 1980)
Christina Athinodorou
(born 1981) * Helen Grime (born 1981) * Hannah Lash (born 1981) * Angélica Negrón (born 1981) * Charlotte Bray (born 1982) * Hildur Guðnadóttir (born 1982) * Natalie Ann Holt (born 1982) * Shibani Kashyap (born 1982) * Catherine Lamb (born 1982) * Jessie Montgomery (born 1982) * Caroline Shaw (born 1982) * M. M. Srilekha (born 1982) * Ann Cleare (born 1983) * Reena Esmail (born 1983) * Sneha Khanwalkar (1983) * Sarah Hutchings (born 1984) * Sasha Siem (born 1984) * Cristina Spinei (born 1984) * Dafina Zeqiri (composer), Dafina Zeqiri (born 1984) * Isobel Waller-Bridge (born 1984) * Zosha Di Castri (born 1985) * Alissa Firsova (born 1986) * Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian (born 1986) * Kathryn Salfelder (born 1987) * Shiva Feshareki (born 1987) * Julia Adolphe (born 1988) * Cecilia Damström (born 1988) * Sarah Lianne Lewis (born 1988) * Bára Gísladóttir (born 1989) * Elizabeth Ogonek (born 1989) * Freya Waley-Cohen (born 1989)

1990s

*Sonya Belousova (born 1990) *Anja Plaschg (born 1990) *Lucy Armstrong (born 1991) *Georgia Koumará (born 1991) *Diana Ringo (born 1992) *Dani Howard (born 1993) *Lillie Harris (born 1994) *Grace-Evangeline Mason (born 1994)

2000s

* Emily Bear (born 2001) * Alma Deutscher (born 2005)

Unknown

* Mary McDonald (composer), Mary McDonald (living, born in the 20th century) * Winifred Phillips (living; born in the 20th century) * Shirley Thompson (composer), Shirley Thompson (living; born in the 20th century) * Yuka Tsujiyoko (living; born in the 20th century)

Sources

* Citron, Marcia J. (1990). "Gender, Professionalism and the Musical Canon", ''The Journal of Musicology'' vol. 8 no. 1, pp. 102–117. *List partially created using Grove's "Explore" function, ''Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Grove Music Online'', ed. L. Macy (accessed 23 September 2006)
grovemusic.com
. *"Women Composers: A Database by the Kapralova Society" (accessed 23 July 2013).

References

External links

International Alliance for Women in Music

a bibliography by Dr. Eugene Gates

by Kapralova Society
French women composers
(in French)

by Dr. Cecilia Piñero Gil

by Pauline Oliveros
Historical Notes for collection of melodies by women composers

Audio links Female Composers 19th, 20th en 21st century
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