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17th century. Barbara Strozzi, sometime between c. 1730–1740. Chiara Margarita Cozzolani (1602–1678) Leonora Duarte (1610–1678) Leonora Baroni (1611–1670) Sophie Elisabeth, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1613–1676) Francesca Campana (c. 1615–1665) Barbara Strozzi (1619–1677) Isabella Leonarda (1620–1704)
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, dedicated to her female patron Isabella de' Medici. [1][2] Artemisia Gentileschi, St ...
Giovanni Mazzuoli. 1360 – 1426. Italian. Also known as Jovannes de Florentia, Giovanni degli Organi and Giovanni di Niccol. Pycard. fl. c. 1390-after c. 1410. English. Has works preserved in the first layer of the Old Hall Manuscript and elsewhere. His identity is unclear; probably English, but possibly from France.
The concerto delle donne[a] (lit. ' consort of ladies') was an ensemble of professional female singers of late Renaissance music in Italy. The term usually refers to the first and most influential group in Ferrara, which existed between 1580 and 1597. [b] Renowned for their technical and artistic virtuosity, the Ferrarese group's core members ...
The key composers from the early Renaissance era also wrote in a late Medieval style, and as such, they are transitional figures. Leonel Power (c. 1370s or 1380s–1445) was an English composer of the late medieval and early Renaissance music eras.
Kassia. Kassia, Cassia or Kassiani (Greek: Κασσιανή, romanized: Kassianí, pronounced [kasia'ni]; c. 810 – before 865) was a Byzantine -Greek composer, hymnographer and poet. [1] She holds a unique place in Byzantine music as the only known woman whose music appears in the Byzantine liturgy. [2] Approximately fifty of her hymns are ...
Women shape music movements, events, and genres as composers, songwriters, instrumental performers, singers, conductors, and music educators. Women's music has been created by and for women in part to explore ideas of women's rights and feminism. The impact of women in music influences concepts of creativity, activism, and culture.
Women are active in all aspects of classical music, such as instrumental performance, vocal performance, orchestral conducting, choral conducting, scholarly research, and contemporary composition. However, proportionately to men, their representation and recognition -especially at higher levels- falls a long way below their numbers.