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Music (classical & jazz) & Music Technology: Music by Women Composers

This guide brings together key Library resources to help you find information relating to classical and jazz and music; including music technology.

The Library is diversifying its music holdings to become more inclusive. We welcome music suggestions which will help us to achieve this aim.

  • Elizabeth Jacquet de la Guerre 165 - 1729
  • Louise Farrenc 1804-1875
  • Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel 1805 - 1847
  • Clara Schumann 1819 - 1896
  • Emilie Mayer 1821 (1812) - 1883
  • Louise Adolpha Le Beau 1850-1927
  • Amy Marcey Cheney Beach 1867 - 1944
  • Amanda Maier, 1853-1894
  • Ethel Smyth 1858 - 1944
  • Rebecca Clarke 1886 - 1979
  • Lili Boulanger 1893 - 1918
  • Elisabeth Lutyens 1906-1983
  • Ruth Crawford Seeger 1901 - 1951
  • Elizabeth Maconchy 1907 - 1994
  • Grazyna Bacewicz 1909 - 1969
  • Galina Ivanovna Ustvolʹskai︠a︡ 1919-2006
  • Ruth Gipps 1921 - 1999
  • Elaine Hugh-Jones 1927 -
  • Thea Musgrave 1928-
  • Sofia Gubaidulina 1931 –
  • Nicola LeFanu 1947 –
  • Kaija Saariaho 1952 - 2023
  • Judith Weir 1954 –
  • Sally Beamish 1956 -
  • Errollyn Wallen 1958 –
  • Hilda Paredes 1959 –
  • Unsuk Chin 1961 –
  • Rebecca Saunders 1967 –
  • Charlotte Bray 1982 –
  • Angela Elizabeth Slater

Further Information

Visit the below link for Information about music by women composers.

Music by Women Composers

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