YMIDI Sound Files of Early Women Composers were created by Hansjakob Heldstab (haheldst@studi.unizh.chin) from the CLASSICAL MIDI ARCHIVES.
Medieval Women Artists: "Women, Visions and Art" http://www.millersv.edu/~english/homepage/duncan/medfem/art2.html. This site is put together by Kim Arnold and Karen Ann Divver.
Here is a site with a Hildegard discography: http://www.medieval.org/emfaq/composers/hildegard.html.
...Yet another Hildegard site is at: http://www.uni-mainz.de/~horst/hildegard/spuren/espuren.html, SCIVIAS: Traces of Hildegard in Today's Bingen.
Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867-1944), b. New Hampshire. Composer whose symphonies, Mass, and concerto were widely performed in the United States and abroad, particularly between 1893 and 1914. She is one of the first US women composers to have achieved wide respect and popularity. Her works include: Gaelic Symphony in E Minor, op. 32 (1896), Piano Concerto in C Sharp Minor (1899), and Scottish Legend, op. 54 (1903). There is a web site dedicated to her music: http://sunsite.unc.edu/cheryb/women/abeach.html
A site devoted to the 19th century pianist-composer, Marie Jaell, is found at: http://www.sdiegomtac.com. Look under Teacher Portraits.
Dame Ethel Smythhttp://sunsite.unc.edu/cheryb/women/dame-ethel.html
Just to mention a new page on Composer Louise Talma has a website at: http://www.omnidisc.com/Talma.html.
The Art of Elizabeth Vigee LeBrun (1755-1842), http://www.azstarnet.com/~kjkelly/Vigee.html.
Copyright September 1996,
updated February 2004.
Kristine H. Burns,
Florida International University
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