Sheet Music by Female Composers: A Rich and Diverse Selection

On 11 August 2011 it is fifty years since the death of the composer Johanna Senfter from Oppenheim who actually was a trained violinist for she had studied with renowned violinists at the Hoch Conserv...

Johanna Senfter (1879-1961) was a pupil of Max Reger.Beginning with an expressive violin theme in a densely packed, 'Brahms-like' piano setting, the classical four-movement work centres around two cap...

The edition 'Klangblumen' by Barbara Heller (originally for piano, ED 20374) is now available for flute too.Each of the 14 pieces has a particular focus, such as a certain interval, a special playing...

In this composition Barbara Heller uses the song Lalai created in Tehran in 1973. It is a song of resistance against the Shah regime and is about a mother who sings a lullaby to her child and tells th...

Musicians onstage stand in the limelight and enjoy their fame whereas after performance they become shrouded in a strange fog of isolation.

Johann Senfter (1879 -1961) wrote three sonatas for Viola solo; modelled on the Solo Sonatas of Max Reger, who was Senfter's teacher of composition in 1908/09 in Leipzig.

I wrote the whole of the first complex as a real inferno, using virtually nothing but noises. These end on the lowest note of the violin, which is also the starting point for the profound shock. While...

With a text by the composer, this work was inspired by members of the Radcliffe Ladies' Choir and their motto 'friendship through singing'.

This atmospheric setting of familiar words from Shakespeare's As You Like It is sprightly and uplifting, with singers being asked by the composer to perform with 'a bit of frost and a knowing smile'....

This secular work for solo low voice and piano sensitively sets Langston Hughes's poem of the same name. A lilting melodic line and an effective piano part combine to create a piece that will appeal t...

An enticing rarity in the vocal literature, 1861 is a 5-minute work for unaccompanied voice - a miniature monodrama, sung a cappella. Okoye's music and dramatic pacing are in tune with Whitman's words...

For Alto, Piano. Composed 1972. Duration 4:00.

Nadia Boulanger composed this collection of seven songs in 1915, including "Sunsets", "Elegy", "Prayer", "Hymn", "Versailles", "Song" and "Winter Evening".

Powerfully poignant and equally tender, My Dearest Ruth is Garrop’s musical setting of the final love letter from Martin Ginsburg to his wife, the opera-loving Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsbur...

Powerfully poignant and equally tender, My Dearest Ruth is Garrop’s musical setting of the final love letter from Martin Ginsburg to his wife, the opera-loving Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsbur...

This atmospheric setting of familiar words from Shakespeare's As You Like It is sprightly and uplifting, with singers being asked by the composer to perform with 'a bit of frost and a knowing smile'....

In 1998 Barbara Heller created this exceedingly poetic song cycle. Filled with calm serenity 'Come una colomba' is steeped in the beauty of nature, colour and light. The poems by the father of modern...

An enticing rarity in the vocal literature, 1861 is a 5-minute work for unaccompanied voice - a miniature monodrama, sung a cappella. Okoye's music and dramatic pacing are in tune with Whitman's words...

For Soprano, Piano. Composed 1978. Duration 7:00.

Diese Lieder zeigen Viardots außergewöhnliche Fähigkeit, ihre spanischen Wurzeln auf andere kulturelle Kontexte zu übertragen. Sie sind sowohl von großem pädagogischen als auch künstlerischen Interess...

Pour les funérailles d'un soldat (For the Funeral of a Soldier) was written by a then nineteen-year-old Lili Boulanger (1893-1918). Her first surviving choral work, it sets to music text from a sectio...

Hoamat — the Bavarian pronunciation of the word 'Heimat' (Home) — was commissioned by the Municipal Music School in the city of Burghausen for their 'Lokalklang' festival. The ten movements make use o...