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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago

Did Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, etc...have female composer peers?

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Did Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, etc...have female composer peers?

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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago

I recently realized you never hear of old-timey/classical women composers. Surely they were around?

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Mozart’s sister was supposedly his equal, but her life wasn’t allowed to take the same course.

The last time I looked this up I remember seeing a crazy theory that Vivaldi was secretly a woman passing as a man and that’s kind of stuck with me too.

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