potoooooooo 🥔@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 28 days agoDid Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, etc...have female composer peers?message-squaremessage-square33linkfedilinkarrow-up182arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up182arrow-down1message-squareDid Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, etc...have female composer peers?potoooooooo 🥔@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 28 days agomessage-square33linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareRoddyStiggs@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up15·28 days agoYes. There were also composers of color working in Europe contemporaneously. You don’t hear about them either. The reason is what you’d expect.
minus-squarepotoooooooo 🥔@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·28 days agoNames/examples would be awesome?
minus-squareRoddyStiggs@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up14·28 days agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevalier_de_Saint-Georges https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bridgetower https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Magdalena_Bach (there’s some scholarly thinking that she may have done some of Johann Sebastian’s work) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cécile_Chaminade (personal favorite) There’s an extensive Wikipedia list of female composers as well. Someone already mentioned Clara Schumann. Nadia Boulanger was hugely influential if not widely performed as well.
Yes.
There were also composers of color working in Europe contemporaneously.
You don’t hear about them either. The reason is what you’d expect.
Names/examples would be awesome?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevalier_de_Saint-Georges
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bridgetower
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Magdalena_Bach (there’s some scholarly thinking that she may have done some of Johann Sebastian’s work)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cécile_Chaminade (personal favorite)
There’s an extensive Wikipedia list of female composers as well. Someone already mentioned Clara Schumann. Nadia Boulanger was hugely influential if not widely performed as well.