Sheet Music by Female Composers: A Rich and Diverse Selection

Zum 100. Geburtstag von Ursula Mamlok (1923-2016) gibt Boosey & Hawkes Bote & Bock in Zusammenarbeit mit der Dwight und Ursula Mamlok Stiftung eine Reihe zu Lebzeiten der Komponistin nicht publizierte...

Zum 100. Geburtstag von Ursula Mamlok (1923-2016) gibt Boosey & Hawkes Bote & Bock in Zusammenarbeit mit der Dwight und Ursula Mamlok Stiftung eine Reihe zu Lebzeiten der Komponistin nicht publizierte...

Leokadiya Kashperova (1872-1940), hitherto consigned to a footnote in musical history as Stravinsky’s piano teacher, is undergoing rediscovery. A double graduate of the St Petersburg Conservatoire, sh...

Leokadiya Kashperova (1872-1940), hitherto consigned to a footnote in musical history as Stravinsky’s piano teacher, is undergoing rediscovery. A double graduate of the St Petersburg Conservatoire, sh...

The edition is part of the ABRSM syllabus (grades 6-8).

A setting by Kaija Saariaho of texts by Amin Maalouf for solo Soprano with Piano. A joint commission between the Théâtre De Châtelet Paris and the Barbican Centre London, the piece was first performed...

A setting by Kaija Saariaho of texts by Amin Maalouf for solo Soprano with Piano. A joint commission between the Théâtre De Châtelet Paris and the Barbican Centre London, the piece was first performed...

Written in 2012, Comme les Ailes d’un Oiseau is an evocative 6 minute art song for Baritone and Piano which sets a text from Amin Maalouf’s 1991 novel Les Echelles du Levant. An expressive vocal line...

Christian Reinhold Köstlin (1813–1856), a lawyer by profession who came from a family of theologians and scholars, was married to the song composer and Munich court singer Josephine Lang (1815–1880)....

Klabund’s poems strike a very distinctive tone: concrete, vivid scenes, almost naive words—and yet, precisely because of this, they address with great seriousness the central questions of love, longin...

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on September 18th, 1895, Nininha Velloso Guerra achieved great recognition as a pianist and a composer in the first two decades of the 20th century. The lack of informa...

The Lady to Her Guitar is a poem by Emily Brontë (1818-1848) which explores the themes of sadness and memory and how music is a powerful tool in awakening dormant emotions. In the poem the Lady speaks...

This Viardot Edition is the first critical edition of Pauline Viardot's songs. It is based on fair copies of the woman composer, who was one of the most versatile singers and important representatives...

Text: Michael Krüger. UA Ludwigslust, 5. Dezember 1999

CDs: Dietburg Spohr (Sopran), Aulos 55013 Karen Leonie Leiber (Stimme), Animato ACD6065 Bibliografie : Adam-Schmidmeier, Eva-Maria von: 'Journalist ermordet... Schmuck und Geld...', in: Musik und Unte...

Four Arms, Two Necks is a setting of a 17th century anonymous poem. The timelessness of the words in the love poem struck me and I set it to music, later dedicating the song to two friends, Anda and B...

From the heart of the global paradigm shift and intense lockdown interiors, people found solace in nature, coming up for air in the public spaces permitted by pandemic regs, seeing that others were go...

Taking the idea of the Greek Muses as a starting point, Musae is a contemporary reflection of different aspects of Woman, in all her power, vulnerability, messiness, beauty, wisdom, and limitless abil...

'Algae' transfers the structure of small-celled organisms, which nevertheless combine to form widely floating carpets, to the level of language and music. German-English shreds of words generate a neo...

In this piece, the voice and the breath play an equal role in executing the musical text, as the breath is (at times) independent from the voice and equal to it in an almost contrapuntal relationship....

In this piece, the voice and the breath play an equal role in executing the musical text, as the breath is (at times) independent from the voice and equal to it in an almost contrapuntal relationship....