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Women Composers: The Lost Tradition Found 2nd Edition (The Diane Peacock Jezic Series of Women in Music) - Softcover
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With newly recovered information about women composers as well as an updated listing of available scores and recordings, this edition brings together musical and biographical material about twenty-five composers from the eleventh to the twentieth-centuries; discusses each composer in context and analyzes the conditions required for women to compose and for their works to survive.
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Diane Peacock Jezic (1942-1989), pianist and musicologist, taught music literature at Towson State University.
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Cecile Chaminade (1857-1944)
Chevaliere de la Legion d'Honneure
Biographical Summary
1857 Born in Paris, into an upper middle-class family of amateur musicians.
1865 Composes her first pieces, church music.
1875 Piano debut in Paris.
Concert tour of England and France, already performing her own compositions.
1888 Performance of her ballet, Callirhoe, in Marseilles.
1892 Appointed by the French government to the post of "Officer of Public Instruction."
1908 Makes her American debut, performing her Concertstuk with the Philadelphia Orchestra.
1944 Dies in Monte Carlo on April 18.
The most prolific of the women composers discussed in this section, Cecile Chaminade composed 400 works in a wide variety of genre: concerti, orchestral suites, a ballet, an opera, chamber music, a choral symphony, 135 songs, and over 200 piano pieces. Furthermore, most of her works enjoyed popularity during her lifetime, which, incidentally, was exceedingly long, spanning the last half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth. Most of her compositions were published during her lifetime by a number of distinguished firms...Furthermore, shortly before her death the French government awarded her the title of Chevaliere of the Legion of Honor.
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- PublisherThe Feminist Press at CUNY
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 155861074X
- ISBN 13 9781558610743
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number2
- Number of pages272
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