List Of Female Composers

• Keiko Abe (born 1937)
• Maria Teresa Agnesi (1720 - 1795)
• Frances Allitsen (1849 - 1912)
• Maryanne Amacher (born 1943)
• Anna Amalia Princess of Prussia (1723 - 1787)
• Anna Amalia, Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1739 - 1807)
• Beth Anderson (born 1950)
• Ruth Anderson (born 1928)
• Agathe Backer Grndahl (1847 - 1907)
• Anne Boleyn (1507 - 1536)
• Lili Boulanger (1893 - 1918)
• Caterina Assandra (1580 - 1632)
• Tekla Badarzewska (1834 - 1861)
• Cecilia Maria Barthelemon (c.1769 - 1840)
• Marion Bauer (1882 - 1955)
• Amy Beach (1867 - 1944)
• Eve Beglarian (born 1958)
• Gertrude van den Bergh (1793 - 1843)
• Marie Bigot (1786 - 1820)
• Elizabeth Weichsell Billington (c.1768 - 1818)
• Carla Bley (born 1938)
• Lili Boulanger (1893 - 1918)
• Nadia Boulanger (1887 - 1979)
• Francesca Caccini (1587 - 1640?)
• Settimia Caccini (1591 - 1638?)
• Wendy Carlos (born 1939)
• Maddalena Cassulana (c.1540 - c.1590)
• Ccile Chaminade (1857 - 1944)
• Unsuk Chin (born 1961)
• Rebecca Clarke (1886 - 1979)
• Ruth Crawford-Seeger (1901 - 1953)
• Madeleine Dring (1923 - 1977)
• Annette von Droste-Hlshoff (1797 - 1848)
• Sophia Corri Dussek (1775 - 1847)
• Ellen Fullman (born 1957)
• Ruth Gipps (1921 - 1999)
• Annie Gosfield (born 1960)
• Agathe Backer Grndahl (1847 - 1907)
• Sofia Gubaidulina (born 1931)
• Guy d'Hardelot (1858 - 1936)
• Hildegard of Bingen (1098 - 1179)
• Augusta Holms (1847 - 1903)
• Eleanor Hovda
• Vitezslava Kapralova (1915 - 1940)
• Johanna Mathieux Kinkel (1810 - 1858)
• Antoinette Kirkwood
• Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1805 - 1847)
• Hildegard of Bingen (1098 - 1179)
• Elena Kats-Chernin (born 1957)
• Joan La Barbara (born 1947)
• Josephine Lang (1815 - 1880)
• Elodie Lauten (born 1950)
• Annea Lockwood (born 1939)
• Elisabeth Lutyens (1906 - 1983)
• Elizabeth Maconchy (1907 - 1994)
• Maria Malibran (1808 - 1836)
• Bunita Marcus (born 1952)
• Fanny Mendelssohn (1805 - 1847)
• Meredith Monk (born 1942)
• Helene de Montgeroult (1764 - 1836)
• Angela Morley (born 1924)
• Thea Musgrave (born 1928)
• Caroline Sheridan Norton (1808 - 1877)
• Pauline Oliveros (born 1932)
• Maria Hester Park (1775 - 1822)
• Shulamit Ran (born 1949)
• Louise Reichardt (1779 - 1826)
• Ann Ronell (1906 or 1908 - 1933)
• Clara Schumann (1819 - 1896)
• Ethel Smyth (1858 - 1944)
• Laurie Spiegel (born 1945)
• Elizabeth Stirling (1819 - 1895)
• Barbara Strozzi (1619 - 1677)
• Maria Agata Szymanowska (1789 - 1831)
• Germaine Tailleferre (1892 - 1983)
• Louise Talma (1906 - 1996)
• Joan Tower (born 1938)
• Usha Khanna
• Kaija Saariaho (born 1952)
• Lois V. Vierk (born 1951)
• Judith Weir (born 1954)
• Grace Williams (1906 - 1977)
• Julia Wolfe (born 1958)
• Ellen Wright (born 1904)
• Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (born 1939)

See also:

• List of composers
• List of 20th century classical composers
• List of famous gay, lesbian or bisexual composers

Further reading

• And Don't Call Them 'Lady' Composers by Pauline Oliveros
• Historical Anthology of Music by Women. James R. Briscoe, ed. Indiana University Press, 1986 (ISBN 0253212960)

External links

• http://music.acu.edu/www/iawm/pages/romantix.html
• http://www.kapralova.org/DATABASE.htm

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