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A-Z of classical composers – gender equal edition

March 16, 2019October 29, 2020 Elizabeth de Brito 0 Comments amy beach, Bach, Beethoven, boulanger, chaminade, classical music, Composers, elisabeth lutyens, female composers, feminism, florence price, gender balance, gender bias, gender equality, gender parity, lera auerbach, misogyny, Mozart, sexism, women composers

A few days ago John Suchet at the BBC tweeted about composers whose names begin

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What is ‘greatness’ in classical music?

February 23, 2019October 29, 2020 Elizabeth de Brito 6 Comments amy beach, barbara strozzi, boulanger, chicago symphony orchestra, classical music, dame elizabeth maconchy, elisabeth lutyens, elizabeth maconchy, emilie mayer, ethel smyth, female composers, feminism, feminist, florence price, gender balance, gender bias, gender equality, great composers, kapralova, louise farrenc, lutyens, Marianna Martines, misogny, music, nadia boulanger, prejudice, racism, sexism, Suffrage, symphony, women composers

Everyone’s got this image of all the ‘great’ composers. They’re all dead white men. British