Women Composers of the Romantic Period

[giles.enders]

Here is an index to the women composers that I have posted information about on this forum.

Amersfoordt-Dyk (Dijk) Hermina Maria  1821 - 1892
Arkwright,  Marian Ursula 1863-1922
Barns,  Ethel  1874-1948
Le Beau,  Louise Adolpha  1850-1927
Bianchini,  Emma  1891-1929
Blahetka,  Leopoldine Anne Marie   1811-1887
Bottini, Marianna 1802-1858
Bright,  Dora Estella  1862-1951
Bronsart,  Ingeborg von (nee Starck)  1840-1913
Bruchshaw,  Kathleen  1877-1921 (Catherine Mary)
Dixon,  Harriett Claiborne  1880-1928
Eggar,  Katherine Emily  1874-1961
Ellicott  Rosalind Francis  1887-1924
Erhart,  Dorothy  1894-1971
Faltis,  Evelyn  1877-1937
Fischer,  Emma Gabriele Marie Freiin von  1878-1964
Folville, Eugenie-Emilie Juliette  1891-1929
Foster, Cicely  1903-2001
Halacsy, Irma von  1889 - 1953
Hopekirk,  Helen  1856-1945
Horrocks,  Amy Elise  1867-1916
Hundt,  Aline  1849-1872
Ingleton Evelyn  1879-1952
Jaell,  Marie (Trautmann-Jaell)  1846-1925
Kapralova,  Vitezslava  1915-1940
Korn,  Clara Anna  1866-1940
de Lara,  Adelina  1872-1961
Leginska,  Ethel  1886-1970
Loder,  Kate Fanny  1828-1904
More,  Margaret Elizabeth  1903-1966
Mueller-Hermann,  Johanna  1868-1919
Owen. Morfydd  1891-1918
Prescott,  Oliviera Louisa  1842-1919
Reinagle,  Caroline  (nee Orger)  1818-1892
Ruta,  Gilda Teresa Emelina  1853-1932
Scarborough,  Frances Ethel  1880-1956
Sohy  Charlotte 1887-1958
Spain-Dunk,  Susan  1880-1962
Swepstone,  Edith Mary  1862-1942
Troup, Emily Josephine[/b]  1853-1912
Tyrrell,  Agnes  1846-1883
Verne-Bredt,  Alice Barbara  1868-1958
Wurm,  Mary (Marie) Josephine Agnes  1860-1938

[sdtom]

I plead ignorance to many of them.
Tom

[Wheesht]

So do I.

Should Johanna Mueller-Hermann's birth year not be listed as 1868 – as I suggested in the thread on her, based among other things on the fact that she was married in 1893.

[minacciosa]

A friend of mine recorded this a few years ago.http://www.amazon.com/Works-Violin-Piano-Ethel-Barns/dp/B000ARTMX4/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1427120772&sr=1-1&keywords=ethel+barns

[Claude Torres]

Vítězslava Kaprálová died on June 16th 1940 in Montpellier, France (St Eloi Hospital).
Not in Paris as specified in the topic dedicated to her (archive).
It's my home town.

Claude

[kolaboy]

Odd how some names fall out of fashion; Dora, Ethel, Vitezslava...

[Alan Howe]

Most names do eventually, don't they?

[kolaboy]

I don't think Kathleen has ever lost it's popularity. On the other hand the only Dora I've ever met was Dicken's Miss Spenlow...

[sdtom]

One can almost determine the era by the persons first name. Will have a listen to the Barns composition.
Tom

[adriano]

Jrma von Halácsy (Austrian/Hungarian, 1880-1953) composed, in 1909, an opera ("Antinoos") about the love between the Emperor Hadrian and Antinous, of which only excerpts have been performed once in concert. I am struggling for this score since over 20 years and cannot find any funds helping me to edit it. It's rather Wagnerian in style.
Fortunately enough, the role of the young lover is for a tenor (optionally a soprano). The composer wrote her own libretto (of which I have an original print).
She composed 6 operas, among which "Salambo"
Irma is listed (without life dates) in:
A large list of women composers
http://www.archiv-frau-musik.de/Komponistinnenh.htm
see also another interesting list:
http://www.women-in-music.com/extrainformation.html

[Ilja]

I'm missing Amy Beach on this list. Have seen her name come by quite frequently during the last years in (usually chamber) concert listings.

[Balapoel]

Name - born - died
Andrée, Elfrida   1841   1929
Arkwright, Marian   1863   1922
Aulin, Laura Valborg   1860   1928
Barns, Ethel   1880   1948
Bauer, Marion Eugenie   1882   1955
Beach, Amy   1867   1944
Blahetka, Leopoldine   1809   1885
Bonis, Melanie (Mel)   1858   1937
Bordewijk-Roepman, Johanna   1892   1971
Boulanger, Lili   1893   1918
Bright, Dora   1862   1951
Bruckshaw, Kathleen   1877   1921
Buchholtz, Helen   1877   1953
Carreno, Teresa   1853   1917
Chamberlayne, Elizabeth Amelia   1869   1919
Chaminade, Cecile   1857   1944
Clarke, Rebecca   1886   1979
Dalberg, Nancy   1881   1949
Eggar, Katherine   1874   1961
Ellicott, Rosalind Francis   1857   1924
Faisst, Clara   1872   1948
Faltis, Evelyn   1887   1937
Farrenc, Louise   1804   1875
Howe, Mary   1882   1964
Howell, Dorothy   1898   1982
Jaell, Marie   1846   1925
Kralik, Mathilde   1857   1944
Landowska, Wanda   1879   1959
Lang, Josephine   1815   1880
Lara, Adelina de   1872   1961
Lawrence, Emily   1854   1894
Le Beau, Luise Adolpha   1850   1927
Levina, Zara   1906   1976
Loder, Kate   1825   1904
Mahler, Alma   1879   1964
Mayer, Emilie   1812   1883
Mendelssohn (Hensel), Fanny   1805   1847
Menter, Sophie   1846   1918
Moore, Mary   1873   1957
Muller-Hermann, Johanna   1868   1941
Netzel, Laura Constance   1839   1927
Paradies, Maria Theresa   1759   1824
Pejacevic, Dora   1885   1923
Price, Florence   1887   1953
Prieto, Maria Teresa   1896   1982
Rimskaja-Korsakowa, Nadesha   1848   1919
Rogers, Clara Kathleen   1844   1931
Rontgen-Maier, Amanda   1853   1894
Schumann, Clara   1819   1896
Sehested, Hilda   1858   1936
Smith, Alice Mary   1839   1884
Smyth, Ethel   1858   1944
Swepstone, Edith   1885   1930
Szymanowska, Maria   1789   1831
Tailleferre, Germaine   1892   1983
Tegner, Alice   1864   1943
Teichmuller, Anna   1861   1940
Tyrrell, Agnes   1846   1883
Vellere, Lucie   1896   1966
Viardot, Louise Heritte-   1841   1918
Viardot, Pauline   1821   1910
Warren, Elinor   1900   1991
Weigl, Vally   1894   1982
Wertheim, Rosy   1888   1949
Williams, Grace   1906   1977
Wurm, Mary   1860   1938
Zimmermann, Agnes   1847   1925


The one's I particularly like are in blue.

[Christopher]

I recently came across a CD called "Kammermusik aus dem Baltikum" which had recordings by a Russian lady composer called Ella Adaiewsky (can also be spelt Adayevskaya,  Adaïewsky, etc) - her dates are 1846-1926.  She is a new one on me completely! 

Photo here - https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Адаевская,_Элла_Георгиевна

Wikipedia says of her (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_Adayevskaya):

Ella Georgiyevna Adayevskaya (Russian: Елла (Елизавета) Георгиевна Адаевская; 22 February 1846 [O.S. 10 February] – 26 July 1926) was a Russian composer, pianist, and ethnomusicologist. Adayevskaya was a pseudonym; the composer derived it from the notes A, D, and A, played by the kettledrum in Mikhail Glinka's opera Ruslan and Ludmila. She was also known as Elisabeth (von) Schultz-Adaïewsky, as well as by the pseudonym Bertramin.

Adaïewsky wrote piano concertos, vocal music (including choral settings of the Russian Orthodox liturgy), and two operas. She also edited a collection of Italian dance songs and published her writings on folk music and the music of ancient Greece.
Born in St. Petersburg on 22 February 1846 as Elizaveta von Schultz, Adayevskaya began taking piano lessons with Adolf von Henselt at the age of eight, and also studied with Nicolas von Martinoff. From 1862 until 1866 she continued her studies with Anton Rubinstein and Alexander Dreyschock at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. Her other teachers included Alexander Famintsyn, Nikolai Zaremba, and Ignaz Vojácek.

She also studied composition with Zaremba and Famintsyn, and in about 1870 began writing music for the Imperial Chapel Choir. Two operas soon followed. The first, titled variously Neprigozhaya (The Homely Girl) and Doch' boyarina (The Boyar's Daughter), was a one-act piece produced in 1873. The more ambitious Zarya svobody (The Dawn of Freedom) followed in 1877; this four-act work was dedicated by the composer to Tsar Alexander II, but was rejected by the censor because it depicted a scene of a peasant uprising. Adayevskaya wrote one more opera, the comic Solomonida Saburova, but this remained in manuscript. Later, she embarked on several solo concert tours of Europe and settled in Venice in 1882. In 1881, she composed her Greek Sonata for clarinet and piano. This piece, which used quarter tones, was inspired by the composer's study of the music of ancient Greece, the Greek Orthodox Church and Slavic folk music.

In 1882 she went to Italy, collected national songs (among others waltz songs of the Resianer (Rhaetians) in 5-4 time).[1]

On the invitation of Franziska von Loë, she moved to Neuwied, on the Rhine, in 1909. Together they joined the more liberal-minded artistic circle formed around the poet Carmen Sylva. Adayevskaya's musical pursuits eventually came to be dominated by folk music research, which resulted in a substantial output of publications on the subject.

Adayevksaya died in Bonn in 1926. She was buried in the Alter Friedhof, Bonn.
Works:
Operas

    Neprigozhaya (The Homely Girl)/Doch' boyarina (The Boyar's Daughter), 1873
    Zarya svobodï (The Dawn of Freedom), 1877
    Solomonida Saburova, unperformed

Vocal music

    Yolka (The Fir Tree), cantata, c. 1870; also

other choral works, songs
Chamber music

    Svabednï khor (Wedding Chorus) overture, c. 1870
    Greek Sonata for clarinet and piano, 1881
    piano pieces

The pieces on the CD I mentioned are Berceuse Estonienne, Dieu! Qu'il la fait bon regarder, Le temps a laissé son manteau and Allez-vous en, allez, allez.

[jerfilm]

if you're interested in Mathilde Kralik, her Piano Trio in F is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kUi5KE42Tg

Jerry

[mjkFendrich]

@Balapoel

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Esposito, Michele   1855   1929
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This Italian / Irish composer was male !