Women and the piano : a history in 50 lives /
"Women are an essential part of the history of the piano--but how many women pianists can you name? Throughout most of the piano's history, women pianists lacked access to formal training and were excluded from male-dominated performance spaces. Even the modern piano's keys were desig...
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2024]
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Table of Contents:
- Anne-Louise Boyvin d'Hardancourt Brillon de Jouy
- Maria Theresia von Paradis
- Jsepha von Auernhammer
- Marianna Martines
- Therese Jansen Bartolozzi
- Sara Levy
- Helene de Montgeroult
- Maria Szymanowska
- Lucy Anderson
- Louise Farrenc
- Fanny Mendelssohn
- Louise Dulcken
- Marie Pleyel
- Clara Schumann
- Wilhelmine Cluss-Szarvady
- Arabela Goddard
- Amy Fay
- Sophie Menter
- Marie Jaëll
- Leopodine Wittgenstein
- Teresa Carreño
- Cécile Chaminade
- Adele aus der Ohe
- Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler
- Winnaretta Singer
- Amy Beach
- Marguerite Long
- Wanda Landowska
- Olga Samaroff
- Nadia Boulanger
- Myra Hess
- Guiomar Novaes
- Clara Haskil
- Maria Yudina
- Lili Kraus
- Eileen Joyce
- Margaret Bonds
- Annie Fischer
- Nancy Weir
- Alicia de Larrocha
- Tatiana Nikolayeva
- Yvonne Loriod
- Philippa Schuyler
- Zhu Xiao-Mei
- Lovie Austin
- Raie da Costa
- Mary Lou Williams
- Winifred Atwell
- Hazel Scott
- Nina Simone
- Further perspectives
- Where are we now?
- Coda.