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  • Francesca Caccini
    (1587 – c. 1641) The first female opera composer and the highest paid musician at the court of the Medici in Florence
  • Countess da Dia
    (c. 1150 - 1212) Authentic 12th century troubadour born into an ancient family of counts and countesses in the valley of the Drôme in Provence
  • Hildegard of Bingen
    (1098 - 1179) Abbess, poet, philosopher, botanist, historian, composer, visionary and saint
  • Elizabeth Jacquet de la Guerre
    (1665 – 1729) Composer, improviser extraordinaire and harpsichordist to the Sun King
  • Marianne von Martinez
    (1744 -1812) Composer, pianist, force behind Haydn and the most brilliant woman in Vienna
  • Maria Theresia von Paradis
    (1759 - 1834) Composer and blind virtuoso who inspired Mozart
  • Clara Schumann
    (1819 - 1896) the pianist and composer, far more famous in her day than her composer husband Robert
  • Fanny Mendelssohn
    (1805 - 1847) Felix Mendelssohn's older sister and a prodigious talent and composer in her own right
  • Ethel Smyth
    (1854-1944) Pioneering suffragette and first woman composer to receive a Damehood
  • Amy Beach
    (1867 - 1944) Piano prodigy, and the first American woman composer to make her name both In America and Europe
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