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  • 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
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    (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
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    (1867 - 1944) Piano prodigy, and the first American woman composer to make her name both In America and Europe
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    Ruth Crawford Seeger
    (1901 - 1953): American folk music specialist and visionary modernist, first woman composer to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship
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    (1907-1994) the prolific and pioneering Anglo-Irish composer, first woman Chair of the UK Composers Guild
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