"Women are not Born to Compose": Female musical Works From 1750 to 1950

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Keynotes

Susan Wollenberg – (Why) Do We Need ‘Women Composers’?

Mariateresa Storino – «She Is not a Woman Composer – Yet a Composer and also a Woman»: Female Creativity beyond Genders and Genres

Composers, Musicians, Virtuosos

Daniel Lienhard – Chamber Music and Concertos for Horn/Horns by Female Composers. A Survey

Monika Kolenda – Polish Composers and Pianists: Nadia Boulanger’s Legacy

Maria Stratigou – Louise Farrenc’s Piano Études: Dates, Purpose, Reception and Role

Reflections on Women Composers’ Position in the History of Music

Joe Davies – Clara Schumann as Composer: Reflections, Challenges, and New Directions

Siegwart Reichwald – Mendelssohn the Progressive: Narrative Strategies in Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel’s Piano Trio Op. 11 and Felix Mendelssohn’s String Quartet Op. 80

Christine Fischer – A Swiss Woman in Italy: Fanny Hünerwadel on her Study Trip

Florence Launay – «She Is the First, She Is the only One of her Sex Who Has Vanquished the Operatic Stage»: the career of Sophie Gail (1775-1819) at the Théâtre de l’Opéra-Comique, 1813-1818

Amy E. Zigler – «Perhaps what Men Call a Sin…»: An Examination of Ethel Smyth’s «The Prison»

Music Criticism and Politics

Fiorella Sassanelli – Playing Death and War to Resonate Peace and Hope: The Engagement in Music of Lili Boulanger (1893-1918)

Elsa Calero-Carramolino – «You Lack Men’s Creativity»: Music and Women’s Protest in Franco’s Prisons (1938-1948)

Barbora Vacková – «You just Write at Night»: Careers, Lives and Professional Experience of Czechoslovak Women Composers after the 1948 Communist Coup

Female Composers in the Twentieth Century

Orla Shannon – Gentle Miss Ina Boyle’ (1889-1967) and Gender (Mis)Representation in Ireland’s Canon of Twentieth-century Art Song

Peter Asimov – Yvonne Loriod, Avant-gardist

Rhiannon MathIas – Grace Williams and Welsh Music: Triads, Orchestral Music and New Beginnings

Elisabeth Kappel – The Compositional Oeuvre of Two Viennese ‘Higher Daughters’: Else Réthi and Vilma Webenau (ca. 1900-1950)

Angela Annese – Andrée Rochat, a Female Composer between Italy and Switzerland through the Twentieth Century

Samantha Ege – «It Takes Courage to Be Cheerful these Days»: Theodora Sturkow Ryder’s Depression-era Chicago, 1928-1931

Lisbeth Ahlgren Jensen – Two Danish Women Composers in the early 20th Century: Hilda Sehested and Nancy Dalberg

Gender, Identity, Emancipation

Orietta Caianiello – The Emancipation of Female Musical Writing in Post-Victorian England from Song-cycles to Phantasies: The Society of Women Musicians

Stéphan Etcharry – Germaine Tailleferre face au quatuor à cordes : un manifeste d’émancipation féminine ?

Laura K. T. Stokes – Fanny Hensel’s Lied ‘Der Fürst vom Berge’ in Light of Contemporary European Politics

Martina Bratić – Heritage without Tradition: Or on the Gist of Croatian Feminist Musicology

Ozgecan Karadagli – Women Musicians of the Ottoman Imperial Harem

Religious Music

Cecilia Delama – «Gioventù femminile di Azione Cattolica» and Sacred Music in Italy in early 20th Century

Hannah Millington – Renunciation and Redemption: Ethel Smyth’s Mass in D

Women Composers in Spain

Lidia Izquierdo Torrontera – Blanca Llisó y Martínez: A Woman Composer in the Second Half of the 19th Century

Helena Martínez Díaz – Training Silenced Composers: The Real Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País and the Conservatory of Granada (1892-1936)

Gender, Genre and Places

Bertrand Porot – Les compositrices d’airs et de cantates en France au XVIII^e siècle

Susanna Välimäki et Nuppu Koivisto – Art Songs by Finnish Women Composers, from the 1840s to the 1940s. A Historical, Feminist and Activist Research Project and Critical Edition

Natasha Holt Farny – Worthy of the Canon? Three Romantic Sonatas by Women for Cello and Piano

Ann Grindley – Sites of Empowerment: «Fin-de-siècle» Salon Culture and the Music of Cécile Chaminade

Anja Bunzel – Countess Eliška Šliková (1790-1855): Salonnière, Patroness, Composer

Małgorzata Kubala – Pauline Viardot-García: Virtuoso and Composer. Transcriptions of Mazurkas by Fryderyk Chopin and Chosen Original Compositions as the Exemplification of Creativity and Development of 19th-century Belcanto Style

Organists-Composers

Steven Young – «Les Organistes oubliées»: Forgotten Female Organists-Composers of France

Gero Pitlok – «La plus grande de toutes les organistes»: How Women Shaped the Worldwide Organ Culture

Zane Prēdele – The Pioneer Marija Gubene — The First Latvian Female Composer, Publicist and Organist

Music Education, Training, Pedagogy

Fauve Bougard – Women and Composition Training in the 19th Century: The Case of the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles

Jan Dewilde – From the Conservatoire Classes for Girls (1867) to the ‘Palais des travaux féminins’ (1913): Reservations for Women Composers in Flanders?

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