Groups by dedication:

• Musicians > Composers
• Musicians > Singers
• Musicians > Lyricists

Amory. Mississipi 01-04-1897 ‖ Los Angeles 10-08-1948

Review: Lucille Bogan was an African-American blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s, when the genre was first emerging. She became known for the references to sex in her songs, many of which she composed and wrote herself, which were explicit in contrast to ...

Groups by dedication:

• Musicians > Composers
• Musicians > Instrumentalists
• Writers > Poets
• Rulers > Empresses / Queens / Noblewomen
• Musicians > Singers
• Writers > in > Occitan

Provenza c. 1140 ‖ Provenza c. 1212

Review: Provençal poet. Born around 1140, she seems to have had court in Die. She loved and wrote about love for the great troubadour Raimbaut of Orange. Her compositions stand out for their quality and singularity. Her poetic voice is gallant, daring and ...

Groups by dedication:

• Rulers > Politicians
• Clerical or spiritual women > Theologists
• Clerical or spiritual women > Priestesses
• Scientists > Astronomers
• Musicians > Composers
• Writers > Poets

Akkadian Empire, Mesopotamia c. 2285 B.C.E. ‖ Ur, Mesopotamia c. 2250 B.C.E.

Review: Enheduanna was a priestess, writer, politician and musician. He is considered the first writer who signed his work (Exaltation of Inanna), male or female, of mankind. She was also the first person to develop a musical notation and to determine the ...

Groups by dedication:

• Musicians > Orchestra and band conductors

Vilnius 29-08-1986

Review: She is the first female artistic director with a long-term contract with _Deutsche Grammophon._

Groups by dedication:

• Musicians > Instrumentalists
• Musicians > Lyricists
• Writers > in > German
• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Story writers
• Writers > Dramatists / Playwrights
• Writers > Essayists
• Writers > Translators
• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Scriptwriters

Mürzzuschlag (Austria) 20-10-1946

Review: Elfriede Jelinek (1946) is an Austrian writer who has excelled primarily as a novelist and playwright. She has also cultivated essay and poetry, and translated from English. She is also known for her social activist facet and her commitment to the ...

Groups by dedication:

• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Activists > Suffragettes / Suffragists
• Activists > Pacifists
• Humanistics > Feminists (intellectuals)
• Popularisers / Cultural promoters > Publishers
• Musicians > Composers
• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Story writers
• Writers > Dramatists / Playwrights
• Writers > Essayists
• Writers > Orators
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers > Columnists
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers > Literary, music, etc. critics

Barcelona 16-03-1865 ‖ Barcelona 29-12-1943

Review: Outstanding intellectual of great public presence in her time; writer in Catalan and Spanish, composer, journalist, speaker, feminist, Catalanist and pacifist. She directed the monthly _Feminal_ magazine (1907–1917) and actively participated in the...

Groups by dedication:

• Musicians > Composers

Broxbourne 19-03-1907 ‖ Norwich 11-11-1994

Review: Elizabeth Maconchy, of Irish descent, was particularly prominent in the field of chamber music, especially as a composer of thirteen string quartets. Her admiration for European music of the first half of the 20th century led her to dabble with d...

Groups by dedication:

• Clerical or spiritual women > Abbesses
• Clerical or spiritual women > Nuns
• Clerical or spiritual women > Mystics
• Clerical or spiritual women > Theologists
• Technologists > Architects
• Scientists > Natural philosophers / Naturalists
• Scientists > Chemists
• Scientists > Biologists
• Scientists > Geologists / Geophysicists
• Healthcare workers > Physicians
• Healthcare workers > Pharmacists
• Healthcare workers > Herbalists
• Humanistics > Intellectuals
• Humanistics > Philosophers
• Humanistics > Philologists / Linguists
• Educators > School teachers
• Popularisers / Cultural promoters > Popularisers of science
• Musicians > Composers
• Writers > Story writers
• Writers > Epistolographers
• Writers > Orators
• Writers
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Painters
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Illuminators (books)
• Popularisers / Cultural promoters > Cultural agents
• Professionals / Other groups > Businesswomen / Executives / Administrative managers

Bermersheim 16-09-1098 ‖ Bingen 17-09-1179

Review: She was one of the most versatile and influential women of the Middle Ages in 12th century Western Europe. She was a mystic, an abbess, a theologian, writer of an extensive collection of letters, religious texts and scientific books on plants and m...

Groups by dedication:

• Musicians > Composers
• Educators > Pedagogues
• Musicians > Instrumentalists > Pianists
• Popularisers / Cultural promoters
• Humanistics > Musicologists

Valencia 23-10-1920 ‖ Valencia 02-09-2018

Review: She was a composer, folklorist and teacher of Spanish music. From the 1950s, she carried out extensive fieldwork to compile traditional Valencian music, highlighting it and making it known in numerous publications.

Groups by dedication:

• Musicians > Composers

Helsinki 1952 ‖ París 2023

Review: Finnish composer dedicated to the spectral study of the sound produced by traditional instruments, essentially from Nordic and Eastern culture. She has developed new compositional techniques, using live electronics and computer assistance. Her more...

Groups by dedication:

• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Writers > in > Catalan
• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Translators
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers > Literary, music, etc. critics
• Plastic, visual and performing artists

Badalona 22-03-1990

Review: Maria Sevilla, poet, _performer_ and literary critic, is the author of three collections of poems and a plaquet. Her poetry reflects, above all, on the construction and representation of identities and on a series of contemporary violences, many of...

Groups by dedication:

• Musicians > Composers
• Writers > in > English
• Writers > Autobiographers
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers > Literary, music, etc. critics
• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Activists > Suffragettes / Suffragists

Sidcup (Kent) 22-04-1858 ‖ Hook Heath (Woking) 08-05-1944

Review: English composer, writer and activist. Although persistently ignored by the musical canon, she was a significant and vital voice on the British scene of her time. She was acclaimed for her music, her highly controversial autobiographical writings, ...

Groups by dedication:

• Musicians > Instrumentalists
• Musicians > Singers
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Dancers

Chattanooga, Tennessee 02-06-1904 ‖ New York 30-05-1956

Review: Valaida Snow was an important jazz and vaudeville trumpeter, singer and dancer of the interwar period. In her heyday she spent long periods in Europe, and like Josephine Baker helped to spread jazz and jazz dance on the continent. Her quality earne...

Groups by dedication:

• Educators > Pedagogues
• Musicians > Composers
• Musicians > Instrumentalists > Pianists
• Musicians > Instrumentalists

Steinsaltz (Alsacia) 17-08-1846 ‖ París 04-02-1925

Review: Marie Jaëll was an excellent pianist from childhood. Although she composed for voice and instrumental ensemble, she is noted for her pedagogical work with the creation of the Jaëll Method for teaching music, which revolutionised piano technique at ...

Groups by dedication:

• Educators > Pedagogues
• Musicians > Composers
• Musicians > Instrumentalists > Pianists
• Musicians > Singers
• Musicians > Music arrangers
• Popularisers / Cultural promoters > Cultural agents

París 18-07-1821 ‖ París 18-05-1910

Review: Pauline reached the best music theatres all over Europe, including the St. Petersburg Opera, bringing Western music to Russia and vice versa. Her voice, of enormous extension, is also remarkable for its agility, phrasing, technique and remarkable d...

Groups by dedication:

• Activists
• Musicians > Composers
• Musicians > Instrumentalists
• Musicians > Singers
• Musicians > Music arrangers

Tyron, North Carolina 21-02-1933 ‖ Carry-le-Rouet 21-04-2003

Review: Eunice Kathleen Waymon, better known by her stage name Nina Simone, was an American singer, songwriter, arranger, pianist and civil rights activist. Her eclectic oeuvre includes the genres of jazz, blues, rhythm and blues and soul.

Groups by dedication:

• Educators > Teachers / Lecturers / Professors
• Musicians > Composers
• Musicians > Instrumentalists

Warsaw 14-12-1789 ‖ St. Petersburg 25-07-1831

Review: Maria Agata Szymanowska, Polish pianist and composer had a musical career that foreshadowed the broader trend in 19th century Europe of the pianist/composer/virtuoso. She toured triumphantly in many European countries. Her skill as a performer favo...

• Gracia Baptista

Types of works:

• Audiovisual
• Score

Date of production: 1557

Genres:

• Music > Instrumental music

• Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla

Types of works:

• Audio
• Score

Date of production: 2019

Genres:

• Music > Instrumental music

• Elizabeth Maconchy

Types of works:

• Audiovisual

Date of production: 1938

Genres:

• Music > Instrumental music > Chamber music (trio, quartet, quintet…)

• María Teresa Oller Benlloch

Types of works:

• Score

Date of production: 1953

Genres:

• Music > Instrumental music > Solo concerto

• Pauline Michelle Ferdinande Viardot García

Types of works:

• Audiovisual
• Score

Date of production: 1904

Genres:

• Music > Vocal music > Opera

• Marianna Agata Wołowska-Szymanowska

Types of works:

• Audiovisual
• Score

Date of production: 1852

Genres:

• Music > Instrumental music > Piano composition (prelude, nocturne, impromptu, fantasia, étude, bagatelle…)