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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.
Harriet Bolz. Clara Lyle Boone. Kathleen Brennan. Carolyn Waters Broe. Myra Brooks Turner. Joanna Brouk. Margaret Brouwer. Elizabeth Brown (musician) Annabel Morris Buchanan.
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 ...
Jennifer Higdon. Jennifer Elaine Higdon (born December 31, 1962 [1]) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. She has received many awards, including the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her Violin Concerto [2][3] and three Grammy Awards for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for her Percussion Concerto in 2010, Viola ...
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 and published by an American woman.
Joan Tower. Joan Tower (born September 6, 1938) [1][2] is a Grammy -winning contemporary American composer, concert pianist and conductor. Lauded by The New Yorker as "one of the most successful woman composers of all time", her bold and energetic compositions have been performed in concert halls around the world.
Also: United States: People: By occupation: Classical composers / Women composers: Women classical composers This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American classical composers . It includes composers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.