List of female composers

The following is a list of famous female composers:

• Maria Teresa Agnesi (1720-1795)
• Frances Allitsen (1849-1912)
• Anna Amalia, Princess of Prussia (1723-1787)
• Anna Amalia von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach (1723-1787)
• Beth Anderson
• Ruth Anderson
• Lili Boulanger (1893-1918)
• Caterina Assandra (1580-1632)
• Cecilia Maria Barthelemon (c.1769-1840)
• Marion Bauer (1882-1955)
• Amy Beach (1867-1944)
• Gertrude van den Bergh (1793-1843)
• Marie Bigot (1786-1820)
• Elizabeth Weichsell Billington (c.1768-1818)
• Wendy Carlos (born 1939)
• Unsuk Chin (born 1961)
• Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979)
• Ruth Crawford-Seeger (1901-1953)
• Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797-1848)
• Sophia Corri Dussek (1775-1847)
• Sofia Gubaidulina (born 1931)
• Vitezslava Kapralova (1915-1940)
• Johanna Mathieux Kinkel (1810-1858)
• Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1805-1847)
• Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)
• Elena Kats-Chernin (born 1957)
• Joan La Barbara (born 1947)
• Josephine Lang (1815-1880)
• Annea Lockwood (born 1939)
• Elisabeth Lutyens (1906-1983)
• Maria Malibran (1808-1836)
• Meredith Monk (born 1942)
• Helene de Montgeroult (1764-1836)
• Thea Musgrave (born 1928)
• Caroline Sheridan Norton (1808-1877)
• Pauline Oliveros (born 1932)
• Maria Hester Park (1775-1822)
• Louise Reichardt (1779-1826)
• Clara Schumann (1819-1896)
• Ethel Smyth (1858-1944)
• Laurie Spiegel (born 1945)
• Elizabeth Stirling (1819-1895)
• Maria Agata Szymanowska (1789-1831)
• Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983)
• Louise Talma (1906-1996)
• Joan Tower (born 1938)
• Lois V. Vierk (born 1951)
• Judith Weir (born 1954)
• Ellen Wright (born 1904)

See also:

• List of composers
• List of 20th century classical composers
• List of famous gay, lesbian or bisexual composers

External link

• http://music.acu.edu/www/iawm/pages/romantix.html
• http://www.kapralova.org/DATABASE.htm