Sheet Music by Female Composers: A Rich and Diverse Selection

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...

First performed at the Wigmore Hall in 1921, Rebecca Clarke’s Trio has good claim to be considered her masterpiece. This expressive and emotionally complex score is one of the outstanding utterances i...

Anmerkung der Komponistin:Akrostichon-Wortspiel besteht aus sieben Szenen aus den Märchen Die unendliche Geschichte von Michael Ende und Alice hinter den Spiegeln von Lewis Carroll. Die ausgewählten T...

Notes from the editor:Chiara Margarita Cozzolani (1602 - ca. 1678) was choir nun and composer who resided in the Convent of Santa Radegonda in Milan, Italy. Like many young women from wealthy families...

Composer's note: Beware Of combines tape with alto flute, viola, and harp. The tape comprises a poem by, and read by, Colleen Clyne, with snippets of recordings from the instrumental parts, played by...

Composer's note:John Cage said:I like sounds just as they are.I love the activity of sound.I don't want a sound to pretend that it' a bucket - or that it's urm - president - or that it's in love with...

Composer's note:The Violin was inspired by my dear friends and wonderful violinists, Neil Dufallo and Amy Kauffman based in New York City, and another dear friend and violin maker, Bruno Guastalla, ba...

Carl Fischer introduces this exciting new series of performance pieces designed to help all levels of instrumentalists by making their practice time more productive. This innovative series offers the...

Jeanne-Louise Farrenc zählt heute wieder zu den bekanntesten französischen Komponistinnen des 19. Jahrhunderts. Ihr 'Klarinetten-Trio op. 44' erschien erstmals 1861 im Selbstverlag. Das Werk belegt di...

Marguerite is a monodrama – a mad scene – commissioned by Newfoundland’s Opera on the Avalon for the wonderful soprano Madison Montambault, as part of its Emerging Artist Program. The 2024-2025 concer...

Knights of the strange is a work of music poetry, where a few words highlight the speculative/poetic connections between dreams, reality and reflection. The duo version is like an independent plant wh...

The Trio in G major / E minor op. 103 by the Oppenheim composer and pupil of Max Regers can be assigned to the composer's late work on the basis of the opus number, even if no year of composition and...

The Sonata for clarinet, viola, horn and piano, op. 37 was composed in 1920 (at the latest). The violist Michael Balling, a friend of Johanna Senfter, wrote to the composer about the work, which he ha...