Members of La Donna Musicale (photo by Javier Parra)
Learning that there were composers other than Handel, Mozart and Haydn making music throughout the eighteenth century was surprising enough. Now it turns out that some of them were women!
If that sounds intuitive or funny, try looking at most concert programs or classical music publications. As usual it’s up to curious performers to tell the whole story.
That’s where La Donna Musicale come in: they’ve been promoting female composers of the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical eras since 1993, unearthing works that often didn’t get the attention they warranted when the composers themselves were alive, and their concert last Thursday came across like a Greatest Hits collection, just in time for a Valentine’s Day release. You can read more about all of these ladies musicians in my coverage on The Boston Musical Intelligencer.
Your personal blog post, “Music History as Equal Opportunity Discriminator | Aesthetic, Not Anesthetic” ended up being worth
commenting here! Merely desired to state u really did a tremendous
work. Thanks for your effort -Edwin
Hi Edwin, thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed the piece but I hope you were able to hear the music.
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