You should know these five composers! – Diepresse.com
Women composed in every era. However, they are hardly present in the game plans and repertoires. To be wrong! An overview of the most important composers.
Katrin Nussmayr and Wilhelm Sinkovicz have already lost many words about composers in this podcast. Hardly about composers. A failure, of course- but also an image of public musical life, in which the works of women hardly play a role: because on the game plans of the opera and concert halls, on the curricula of music universities and on the agenda of record labels there are almost only works by men. Women also composed in almost all epochs, often against some resistance, and their great talent demonstrated. As famous as their male contemporaries, there is hardly any of them today.
It is high time to work against it! Guest is for that Dorothy Khadem-Missagh: The Austrian pianist, conductor and festival director Has dealt intensively with the works and biographies of various composers-and she presents five women to the « Classical for Tactless » team who fascinated them particularly fascinated. And a few more you should know.
Among the composers of this episode: the blind Mozart time generation Maria Theresia of Paradis; Clara Schumannwho was also the most important pianist of her time (and both for her husband Robert Schumannas well as for Johannes Brahms, the most important musical contact person); Fanny Hensel, the no less talented sister of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, who remained a music career and which still composed over 400 works; Ethel Smyth, a fighter for women's rights whose music was explicitly and implicitly political; And the active US composer Jessie Montgomery, the currently largest star among contemporary composers.
Excerpts from the following recordings can be heard:
Maria Theresia of Paradis: Sicilienne in Es major, version for cello and piano (Jacqueline du pré)
Clara Schumann: concert for piano and orchestra A minor op. 7 (Alexander Shelley, Canada's National Arts Center Orchestra)
Fanny Hensel: Ouverture in C major (Dorothy Khadem-Missagh, Beethoven-Spring Festival Orchestra, live recording)
Louise Farrenc: Symphony No. 3 G minor op. 36, Scherzo (Johannes Goritzki, North German Radio Symphony)
Ethel Smyth: The Forest, Prolog (BBC Symphony Orchestra, John Andrews)
Jessie Montgomery: Strum (Catalyst Quartet)
About the podcast
In « Classic for Tactless » Exchange feuilleton editor Katrin Nussmayr and classic critic Wilhelm Sinkovicz together the world of classical music: does every orchestra need a conductor? Why does Richard Wagner disturb? What was so great about Mozart? How much classic is in « Bohemian Rhapsody » or Taylor Swift? For musical beginners and classical friends who want to know a little more precisely.
The podcast appears every second Saturday On the website of the « Press » And wherever there are podcasts. « Classical for tactless » is part of the Podcast Canal « Musikalon ».
Production: Wilhelm Sinkovicz / www.sinkothek.at
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