Sheet Music by Female Composers: A Rich and Diverse Selection

“The notes have space around them in this piece, a little bit like dust over the keys. The title refers to roses delivered to a loved one, they are packed in a box and have a beautiful glow, very tend...

Grasshoppers was written in 1956 during Mamlok's studies at the Manhattan School. She balances a variety of moods, textures and tempi in six brief movemenm of a divertimento-like character that are th...

Being Russian born I have a strong connection to the ballet scores of Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and Stravinsky, and as a result in the Wild Swans, more than in any other work of mine, I allowed myself th...

“The notes have space around them in this piece, a little bit like dust over the keys. The title refers to roses delivered to a loved one, they are packed in a box and have a beautiful glow, very tend...

Maria Herz – it is only in recent years that her name has begun to get around in the music world, so thoroughly had her work been forgotten due to multiple exile. Born in Cologne in 1878 and raised th...

Maria Herz – only in recent years has her name begun to be heard in the music world, so thoroughly had her work been forgotten due to a complicated fate in exile. Born in Cologne in 1878 and raised th...

Almost all of Ursula Mamlok's works created before the Wind Quintet (1956) have remained unpublished until now. Many of them were performed for the first time in the final years of the composer who di...

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 Symphony in B minor of 1905 is Kashperova’s grandest composition, revisited by her in 1909 in order to transform the orchestral original into a large-scale concert work for solo piano. She may wel...

« Si les artistes rendent si rarement compte de leurs instants d'inspiration, la raison en est bien simple: c'est qu'à ces moments-là du processus créateur ils ne sont nullement présents par la consci...

This collection of Marga Richter's complete works for solo piano comprises twenty-eight pieces, composed over a period of six decades, from the curiously eccentric Ballet of the Pixilated Penguins of...

Dreamy Piano Studies contains 33 small piano pieces. The three melodies in three keys are accompanied again and again by 11 accompaniments each - and even in three different time signatures. The Dream...

I moved in as a stranger, I move out again as a stranger. The lyrical self in Franz Schubert's song cycle "Winterreise" wanders, is searching. Is it his personal life's wandering after a failed love,...

Although the five songs that form the basis of the "Bairische Intermezzi" originate from different regions of southern Germany, they all belong to the same musical culture of the Alpine region. This e...

In Clara Schumann's Schreibart findet sich mancher ihr eigenthümliche Zug; sie ist weit entfernt, Chopin, Mendelssohn oder Robert Schumann zu copiren; diese Meister scheinen nur durch das Colorit, das...

Rom 1839/40: Fanny Hensels Italien-Sehnsucht findet ihre Erfüllung, und sie komponiert in der Wohnung - 'vier Stuben, gut meubliert' - an einem 'alten, leichten, ausgespielten Klapperkasten' kleinere...

Dem Archivdunkel entrissen: ein Bach-naher Klavierzyklus Die Werke von Mendelssohns 'großer' Schwester Fanny erblicken mehr und mehr das Licht der Musikwelt. Das 'Klavierbuch e-moll' kommt 2003 erstma...