Sheet Music by Female Composers: A Rich and Diverse Selection

New edition by Boris Hellmers-Spethmann.

Chanson Clair de lune Gigue

Light still and moving, a work for flute and kantele a traditional Finnish and Karelian plucked instrument - was premiered by Camilla Hoitenga and Eija Kankaanranta on 18 February 2017 in Paris as par...

The composer originally intended to model this new work on her favourite flute piece, Bach's Second Suite, and started to write an Overture. Sensing great energy from this beautiful medium, though, sh...

Pieces of Light was commissioned by the Flautadors for their 20 th Anniversary. When the group approached me about writing a piece, I had just finished reading Pieces of Light; The New Science of Memo...

A summery reverie - with the sun on your face, birdsong in your ears, the scent of summer lilacs and lavender in your nose and the taste of strawberries, cherries, blackberries and blueberries in your...

The "Little Piano Book for Anna Magdalena Bach" is now 300 years old, and it is one of the few things we "know" about Anna Magdalena Bach. The works it contains were certainly particularly close to he...

My choral fantasy on "Puer natus" develops from the swaying three-note rhythm of the well-known Christmas carol, which repeatedly gives new impetus to the melodic progression through to jubilant trill...

The "Waldbilder" are five scenes of different character, held together by a common basic mood: the titles of the movements can be interpreted both associatively and directly programmatically, dependin...

Die 'Sechs Charakterstücke' entstanden 1997 anlässlich der Ausschreibung des Bundeswettbewerbes für Komposition der Jeunesses Musicales Deutschland. Als Preisträgerstück wurde es am 27. März 1997 von...

A Möbius strip is a figure that leads back into itself, so that the whole strip has only one side and one edge: there is no top and no bottom, no inside and outside. Since its discovery, the Möbius st...

Dun, the Dutch word for "thin", begins with unison line. The guitar provides a thin, repetitive accompaniment, while the flute weaves a melodic thread, made thinner by frequent rests and pauses. Even...

The Flower Power Suite is inspired by the ideals and atmosphere of the flower power era. It is not a literal retrospective, but a musical evocation of a spirit of the time in which ideals, freedom, an...