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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807901703321

Autore

Porter Cecelia Hopkins

Titolo

Five lives in music : women performers, composers, and impresarios from the baroque to the present / / Cecelia Hopkins Porter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2012

ISBN

0-252-09413-1

1-283-99251-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Disciplina

780.92/52

B

Soggetti

Women musicians

Women composers

Musicians

Composers

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-237) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Duchess Sophie-Elisabeth : composer, harpsichordist, and impresario in the North German baroque -- Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre : Versailles and Paris in the twilight of the ancien reĢgime -- Josephine Lang : the music of romanticism in South German cultural life -- Maria Bach : Vienna from imperial splendor to the Second Republic -- Ann Schein : an American concert pianist in today's world.

Sommario/riassunto

Representing a historical cross-section of performance and training in Western music since the 17th century, this book brings to light the private and performance lives of five remarkable women musicians and composers.