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(1854-1944) Pioneering suffragette and first woman composer to receive a Damehood

(1867 - 1944) Piano prodigy, and the first American woman composer to make her name both In America and Europe

(1901 - 1953): American folk music specialist and visionary modernist, first woman composer to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship

(1907-1994) the prolific and pioneering Anglo-Irish composer, first woman Chair of the UK Composers Guild

(1887 - 1953) Pioneering Black composer, first woman to be inducted into the American Society of Composers and first Black woman to have a major symphony premiere

(1909 – 1969) the prolific and prodigiously talented Polish composer, violinist and writer with a significant musical voice

(1919-2006) the great Russian Maverick - unique, fearless, and totally uncompromising

(1931-2025) one of the last truly courageous composers of Soviet Russia whose death - on March 13 - heralded the end of an age.

(1939 - ) First woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music, first woman doctoral student at Juilliard, first Composer’s Chair in the history of Carnegie Hall

(1942 -) the American composer, singer, director, film-maker, choreographer and legend in her own lifetime, still composing and creating