2006-09-26 05:26:50 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
The women back in those days were too busy cleaning the houses and cooking food to have time to compose!
2006-09-26 05:28:47 · answer #1 · answered by Jazz 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
http://www.wacklepedia.com/l/li/list_of_female_composers.html
The following is a list of famous female composers:
Maria Teresa Agnesi (1720-1795)
Frances Allitsen (1849-1912)
Anna Amalia, Princess of Prussia (1723-1787)
Anna Amalia von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach (1723-1787)
Beth Anderson
Ruth Anderson
Lili Boulanger (1893-1918)
Caterina Assandra (1580-1632)
Cecilia Maria Barthelemon (c.1769-1840)
Marion Bauer (1882-1955)
Amy Beach (1867-1944)
Gertrude van den Bergh (1793-1843)
Marie Bigot (1786-1820)
Elizabeth Weichsell Billington (c.1768-1818)
Wendy Carlos (born 1939)
Unsuk Chin (born 1961)
Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979)
Ruth Crawford-Seeger (1901-1953)
Annette von Droste-H?shoff (1797-1848)
Sophia Corri Dussek (1775-1847)
Sofia Gubaidulina (born 1931)
Vitezslava Kapralova (1915-1940)
Johanna Mathieux Kinkel (1810-1858)
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1805-1847)
Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)
Elena Kats-Chernin (born 1957)
Joan La Barbara (born 1947)
Josephine Lang (1815-1880)
Annea Lockwood (born 1939)
Elisabeth Lutyens (1906-1983)
Maria Malibran (1808-1836)
Meredith Monk (born 1942)
Helene de Montgeroult (1764-1836)
Thea Musgrave (born 1928)
Caroline Sheridan Norton (1808-1877)
Pauline Oliveros (born 1932)
Maria Hester Park (1775-1822)
Louise Reichardt (1779-1826)
Clara Schumann (1819-1896)
Ethel Smyth (1858-1944)
Laurie Spiegel (born 1945)
Elizabeth Stirling (1819-1895)
Maria Agata Szymanowska (1789-1831)
Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983)
Louise Talma (1906-1996)
Joan Tower (born 1938)
Lois V. Vierk (born 1951)
Judith Weir (born 1954)
Ellen Wright (born 1904)
2006-09-26 05:31:53 · answer #2 · answered by Lee_M_Crowell 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋
fairly some dazzling omissions from Richard M's huge wikilist. those spring right now to thoughts: Priaulx Rainier Elizabeth Maconchy Elena Firsova Grace Williams Roxana Panufnik and that i'm particular there are a number of greater... As for wind contraptions, the french composer Tailleferre wrote products for fairly some combos inclusive of slightly for wind quintet.
2016-10-01 09:28:56 · answer #3 · answered by alisha 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not true. Carole King has written lots of successful tunes, just think about You've Got a Friend and You Make Me Fell (Like a Natual Woman) and many more. Carly Simon won an Oscar (if I'm not mistaken) for her theme song to a James Bond movie. Alanis Morissette write all her songs. And there are many more (Joni Mitchell...). Or did I misunderstand? Maybe you meant classical music?
2006-09-26 05:32:39 · answer #4 · answered by shamrock 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are talking about classical composers then very few women in those days were educated to a standard to be able to compose.
2006-09-26 05:40:56 · answer #5 · answered by redcap 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since Dolly Parton was mentioned, I have to point out that she wrote I Will Always Love You, which is known as Whitney Houston's biggest hit. =)
But until the "feminist" movement, the opportunity to become a composer was just not available to women, just as it was not available to the poor. Classical era composers had to be fluent in several languages (since operas were written in French and Italian mostly and church music was written in Latin) in addition to all the musical theory. Plus they had to know how to play several musical instruments. They had to know how each one sounded well enough to place them in the score.
Folk songs (i.e. rock and roll of the day) were written and performed, sure, but they were not kept like classical. It was common in a non-television, non-internet world for people to know how to play one musical instrument to amuse themselves and their families.
2006-09-26 05:48:07 · answer #6 · answered by Bitsie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
your prob talking about ladies in the context of mozart but in the slight chance you arent, diane warren is an excellent famous song writer
2006-09-26 05:38:12 · answer #7 · answered by K Girl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What about Alicia Keyes
2006-09-26 05:37:16 · answer #8 · answered by Valarie P 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they were in the kitchen barefoot and pregnant for these famous **** *** composers
2006-09-26 05:28:50 · answer #9 · answered by womam12 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
shaniya twane writes her own work.
Dolly Parton does some of her own work
there's a few out there, most R CANAdians
2006-09-26 05:31:18 · answer #10 · answered by obanlassie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋