As early as the 1500s, a surprising number of women have composed classical music. Many were successful, finding venues for both publishing and performing their

The hidden history of the women who dared to write music in a man’s world. ‘Lucid, engaging and exuberant... [Sounds and Sweet Airs] is terrifically enjoyab

"Do look after my music!" Irene Wienawska Polowski exclaimed before her death in 1932. And from the urgency of that sentiment the authors here have taken their

Throughout history women have been composing music, but their achievements have usually gone unrecognized.