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This is a list of 20th-century American women composers ordered alphabetically by surname. A. Mildred ...
19th-century composer and pianist Clara Schumann. Owing to sexism, women composers of Western classical music are disproportionately absent from the music textbooks and concert programs that constitute the patriarchical Western canon, even though many women have composed music. [a] The reasons for women's absence are various.
Ruth Crawford Seeger. Ruth Crawford Seeger (born Ruth Porter Crawford; July 3, 1901 – November 18, 1953) was an American composer and musicologist. Her music heralded the emerging modernist aesthetic, and she became a central member of a group of American composers known as the "ultramoderns". She composed primarily during the 1920s and 1930s ...
Soviet women composers (1 C, 16 P) Pages in category "20th-century women composers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 618 total.
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New York City, U.S. Occupation (s) Composer, Pianist. Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (September 5, 1867 – December 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 1896, was the first symphony composed ...
It includes 21st-century American composers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "20th-century American women composers" This category contains only the following page.
Florence Beatrice Price (née Smith; April 9, 1887 – June 3, 1953) was an American classical composer, pianist, organist and music teacher. [2] Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, Price was educated at the New England Conservatory of Music, and was active in Chicago from 1927 until her death in 1953. Price is noted as the first African-American ...