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List of female composers Wikipedia

The following is a list of famous female composers:

• Keiko Abe (born 1937)

• Maria Teresa Agnesi (1720 - 1795)

• Frances Allitsen (1849 - 1912)

• Maryanne Amacher (born 1943)

• Anna Amalia Princess of Prussia (1723 - 1787)

• Anna Amalia, Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1739 - 1807)

• Beth Anderson (born 1950)

• Ruth Anderson (born 1928)

• Caterina Assandra (1580 - 1632)

• Lera Auerbach (born 1973)

• Gra??yna Bacewicz (1909 - 1969)

• Agathe Backer Gr??ndahl (1847 - 1907)

• Tekla Badarzewska (1834 - 1861)

• Cecilia Maria Barthelemon (c.1769 - 1840)

• Marion Bauer (1882 - 1955)

• Amy Beach (1867 - 1944)

• Eve Beglarian (born 1958)

• Gertrude van den Bergh (1793 - 1843)

• Lauren Bernofsky (born 1967)

• Marie Bigot (1786 - 1820)

• Elizabeth Weichsell Billington (c.1768 - 1818)

• Carla Bley (born 1938)

• Lili Boulanger (1893 - 1918)

• Nadia Boulanger (1887 - 1979)

• Francesca Caccini (1587 - 1640?)

• Settimia Caccini (1591 - 1638?)

• Wendy Carlos (born 1939)

• Doreen Carwithen (1922 - 2003)

• Maddalena Casulana (c.1540 - c.1590)

• C??cile Chaminade (1857 - 1944)

• Unsuk Chin (born 1961)

• Rebecca Clarke (1886 - 1979)

• Ruth Crawford-Seeger (1901 - 1953)

• Maria de Alvear (born 1960)

• Madeleine Dring (1923 - 1977)

• Sophia Corri Dussek (1775 - 1847)

• Louise Dumont Farrenc (1804 - 1875)

• Ellen Fullman (born 1957)

• Miriam Gideon (1906 - 1996)

• Ruth Gipps (1921 - 1999)

• Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912 - 1990)

• Annie Gosfield (born 1960)

• Sofia Gubaidulina (born 1931)

• Minako Hamano (born ????)

• Guy d'Hardelot (1858 - 1936)

• Hildegard of Bingen (1098 - 1179)

• Augusta Holm??s (1847 - 1903)

• Eleanor Hovda (born 1940) (http://artofthestates.org/cgi-bin/composer.pl?comp=89)

• Vitezslava Kapralova (1915 - 1940)

• Johanna Mathieux Kinkel (1810 - 1858)

• Elena Kats-Chernin (born 1957)

• Antoinette Kirkwood

• Joan La Barbara (born 1947)

• Josephine Lang (1815 - 1880)

• Vanessa Lann (born 1968)

• Elodie Lauten (born 1950)

• Nicola LeFanu (born 1947)

• Annea Lockwood (born 1939)

• Elisabeth Lutyens (1906 - 1983)

• Elizabeth Maconchy (1907 - 1994)

• Ursula Mamlok (born 1928)

• Bunita Marcus (born 1952)

• Fanny Mendelssohn (1805 - 1847)

• Meredith Monk (born 1942)

• Helene de Montgeroult (1764 - 1836)

• Angela Morley (born 1924)

• Thea Musgrave (born 1928)

• Caroline Sheridan Norton (1808 - 1877)

• Pauline Oliveros (born 1932)

• Maria Hester Park (1775 - 1822)

• Shulamit Ran (born 1949)

• Louise Reichardt (1779 - 1826)

• Ann Ronell (1906 or 1908 - 1933)

• Clara Schumann (1819 - 1896)

• Yoko Shimomura (born 1967)

• Alice Mary Smith (1839 - 1884)

• Ethel Smyth (1858 - 1944)

• Laurie Spiegel (born 1945)

• Elizabeth Stirling (1819 - 1895)

• Barbara Strozzi (1619 - 1677)

• Maria Agata Szymanowska (1789 - 1831)

• Germaine Tailleferre (1892 - 1983)

• Louise Talma (1906 - 1996)

• Joan Tower (born 1938)

• Yuka Tsujiyoko (born ????)

• Usha Khanna

• Kaija Saariaho (born 1952)

• Galina Ustvolskaya (born 1919)

• Lois V Vierk (born 1951)

• Judith Weir (born 1954)

• Grace Williams (1906 - 1977)

• Julia Wolfe (born 1958)

• Ellen Wright (born 1904)

• Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (born 1939)

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